{"id":4558,"date":"2011-03-17T13:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T17:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4558"},"modified":"2011-03-17T13:17:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T17:17:56","slug":"muhammad-ali-makes-appeal-to-iran-to-free-american-hikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4558","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Ali Makes Appeal To Iran To Free American Hikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 Boxing champ <strong>Muhammad Ali<\/strong> is asking Iran to release two American hikers held since 2009 on spy charges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ali<\/strong>, arguably the most prominent U.S. Muslim, on Wednesday released a letter he wrote to supreme leader <strong>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/strong> in February.<\/p>\n<p>The letter asks <strong>Khameini<\/strong> to release <strong>Josh Fattal<\/strong> and <strong>Shane Bauer<\/strong>, who were arrested while hiking in northern Iraq near the Iranian border. A third hiker, <strong>Sarah Shourd<\/strong>, was released on bail in September, shortly after another letter <strong>Ali<\/strong> wrote to <strong>Khamenei<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ali\u2019s<\/strong> latest letter asks <strong>Khamenei<\/strong> as a brother in Islam to show the same mercy and compassion for the two men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 Boxing champ Muhammad Ali is asking Iran to release two American hikers held since 2009 on spy charges. Ali, arguably the most prominent U.S. Muslim, on Wednesday released a letter he wrote to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in February. The letter asks Khameini to release Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}