{"id":1773,"date":"2013-06-09T23:30:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T06:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2013-06-10T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T07:09:15","slug":"shabaan-1434-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/shabaan-1434-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sha&#8217;baan 1434 Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note to announce the beginning of the eight month of the Islamic calendar, Sha&#8217;baan, has commenced this evening. \u00a0We tried to view this moon from our normal sighting location atop Russian Ridge in the Santa Cruz mountains, but fog, wind and a thick marine layer had completely obscured the view from there and any hope of seeing the new crescent. \u00a0We rushed back down the mountains and directly to the top level of a parking structure of a local hospital. \u00a0From there we had a clear view of the horizon and we waited there until we sighted it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/detail\/Shabaan1434WPDtl.jpg\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Shabaan 1434 Crescent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/images\/Shabaan1434WP.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shabaan 1434<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sha&#8217;baan is known as the Month of The Prophet. \u00a0In this month the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessing upon him, used to fast more than in any other month outside of Ramadan. \u00a0It is also a month in which there is a night where those seeking forgiveness of God will find it if they ask. \u00a0It is the night of the 15th day. \u00a0So seek out your good fortune in this blessed month and \u00a0 until next time, Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note to announce the beginning of the eight month of the Islamic calendar, Sha&#8217;baan, has commenced this evening.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6,7,39],"tags":[41,17,297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}