{"id":94608632,"date":"2011-09-22T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/ground-zero-islamic-center-officially-open\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T11:05:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T11:05:17","slug":"ground-zero-islamic-center-officially-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/ground-zero-islamic-center-officially-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Zero Islamic Center Officially Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Photgrapher Danny Goldfield Arranges Photo Exhibit <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night marked the official opening of the Islamic cultural center in <strong>New York<\/strong>,\u00a0 located at 51 Park Place, just two blocks from the World Trade Center site.<\/p>\n<p>Though the center came under fire when it\u2019s initial plans were released, its opening was met with enthusiasm according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/story\/2011-09-22\/new-york-city-mosque\/50506728\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA Today<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p>If you were affected by the events of 9\/11 and have <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-new-york-city-nyc-new-york\">flights to New York<\/a><\/strong> on the way, you might want to consider seeing what the center has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Sharif El-Gamal, the center\u2019s developer, was quoted in the USA Today report, saying its \u201cmodeled after the Jewish Community Center on Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side, where he lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The space is open to all faiths and will also include <strong>memorial dedicated to 9\/11<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photgrapher Danny Goldfield Arranges Photo Exhibit &nbsp; Wednesday night marked the official opening of the Islamic cultural center in New York,\u00a0 located at 51 Park Place, just two blocks from the World Trade Center site. Though the center came under fire when it\u2019s initial plans were released, its opening was met with enthusiasm according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201625,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608632\/revisions\/97201625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}