{"id":914,"date":"2020-04-26T20:27:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T20:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=914"},"modified":"2020-04-26T20:29:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T20:29:26","slug":"empty-grand-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/04\/26\/empty-grand-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Grand Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I did some further digging following my earlier post about the affect that COVID-19 has had on the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and I found this jarring image if the Grand Mosque from Reuters that I wanted to share with everyone. It shows the Grand Mosque virtually empty during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course this is a site that would be packed during a more traditional. Ramadan. Here is the photo:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-919\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/files\/2020\/04\/MECCA-1-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/files\/2020\/04\/MECCA-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/files\/2020\/04\/MECCA-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>For perspective, I also found an image of the Grand Mosque during a previous Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Here is that picture:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-920\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/files\/2020\/04\/MECCA-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/files\/2020\/04\/MECCA-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/files\/2020\/04\/MECCA.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>It is truly bizzare the impact that this virus has had everyone. Very few corners of the world, if any, have been able to escape the affects COVID-19 and the Muslim faith is no different.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did some further digging following my earlier post about the affect that COVID-19 has had on the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and I found this jarring image if the Grand Mosque from Reuters that I wanted to share with everyone. It shows the Grand Mosque virtually empty during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}