{"id":624706,"date":"2017-06-07T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=624706"},"modified":"2017-06-08T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:49:13","slug":"mosque-holds-annual-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=624706","title":{"rendered":"Mosque Holds Annual Open House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/428213_299287956803888_253710409_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/428213_299287956803888_253710409_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-624710\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Another large crowd was on hand as Tyler&#8217;s East Texas Islamic Society opened the doors of its mosque to the community for an annual open house &#8212; part of the holy month of Ramadan.  Visitors learned about Islam as they listened to a panel of speakers and got to ask questions, along with enjoying food and fellowship.  Society spokesman Anwar Khalifa told KTBB, &#8220;We want to open up. We want the community comfortable with their Muslim neighbors&#8230;We want to be a part of the community, not apart from the community.&#8221;  As for the response, Khalifa said, &#8220;It&#8217;s amazing &#8212; I think this is the biggest turnout we&#8217;ve had,&#8221; adding that the society members were &#8220;just so grateful for everybody that&#8217;s here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Another large crowd was on hand as Tyler&#8217;s East Texas Islamic Society opened the doors of its mosque to the community for an annual open house &#8212; part of the holy month of Ramadan. Visitors learned about Islam as they listened to a panel of speakers and got to ask questions, along with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=624706\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mosque Holds Annual Open House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":624710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 03:24:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624706"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718681,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624706\/revisions\/718681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/624710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}