{"id":22920,"date":"2016-07-08T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22920"},"modified":"2016-07-08T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T20:57:07","slug":"a-much-welcomed-anodyne-for-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/08\/a-much-welcomed-anodyne-for-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Much Welcomed Anodyne for Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found these pictures of a Muslim woman using the American flag to provide shade for a man overcome at a Dallas prayer rally today to be a balm for my troubled heart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dallas-Prayer-Rally_Muslim-Shades-American-Flag_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dallas-Prayer-Rally_Muslim-Shades-American-Flag_02\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22921\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dallas-Prayer-Rally_Muslim-Shades-American-Flag_02.jpg\" width=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dallas-Prayer-Rally_Muslim-Shades-American-Flag_02.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dallas-Prayer-Rally_Muslim-Shades-American-Flag_02-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dallas-Prayer-Rally_Muslim-Shades-American-Flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dallas-Prayer-Rally_Muslim-Shades-American-Flag\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22922\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dallas-Prayer-Rally_Muslim-Shades-American-Flag.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dallas-Prayer-Rally_Muslim-Shades-American-Flag.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dallas-Prayer-Rally_Muslim-Shades-American-Flag-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the Tweet from which the second one came:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Muslim woman holds American flag as shade over man at prayer rally <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DallasPd?src=hash\">#DallasPd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dallasismyhometown?src=hash\">#Dallasismyhometown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dallasstrong?src=hash\">#dallasstrong<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kepPAnkZ1U\">pic.twitter.com\/kepPAnkZ1U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Naomi Martin (@NaomiMartin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NaomiMartin\/status\/751472016977326081\">July 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found these pictures of a Muslim woman using the American flag to provide shade for a man overcome at a Dallas prayer rally today to be a balm for my troubled heart. And the Tweet from which the second one came: A Muslim woman holds American flag as shade over man at prayer rally <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/08\/a-much-welcomed-anodyne-for-friday\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}