{"id":21109,"date":"2012-07-20T09:35:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T05:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=21109"},"modified":"2013-03-15T10:20:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T06:20:30","slug":"muslims-difficult-decisions-for-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-sports-news-and-analysis\/muslims-difficult-decisions-for-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims: Difficult Decisions for Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the ultimate test of sporting ability, but this London Olympics will provide extra difficulty for some Muslim athletes.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since 1980, the summer Games co-incide with the holy month of Ramadan.\u00a0Many have reluctantly decided they will not be able to fast and still compete at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p><em>Al Jazeera<\/em>&#8216;s Lee Wellings reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO, AL JAZEERA: It is the ultimate test of sporting ability, but this London Olympics will provide extra difficulty for some Muslim athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,76],"tags":[11920,381,926,707,12235,1174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26520,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21109\/revisions\/26520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}