{"id":9024,"date":"2011-08-11T15:14:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T19:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9024"},"modified":"2011-08-11T13:31:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T17:31:13","slug":"nfl%e2%80%99s-abdullah-brothers-invited-to-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9024","title":{"rendered":"NFL\u2019s Abdullah Brothers Invited To White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FLAGSTAFF, AZ<\/strong> \u2014 Arizona Cardinals safety <strong>Hamza Abdullah<\/strong> and his brother, <strong>Husain<\/strong>, safety for the Minnesota Vikings, were invited to the White House for dinner with <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The two attended the annual Iftar Dinner on Wednesday night celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona\u2019s <strong>Abdullah<\/strong> says he was stunned and initially thought the invitation was a fake. He called it a \u201chumbling experience\u2019\u2019 and looked forward to shaking the president\u2019s hand. He called <strong>Pres.Obama<\/strong> \u201ca stand-up guy\u2019\u2019 who is \u201cfor equality, regardless of ethnicity, religious background or class.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abdullah<\/strong> was in Oakland in time for Arizona\u2019s preseason opener Thursday night against the Raiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLAGSTAFF, AZ \u2014 Arizona Cardinals safety Hamza Abdullah and his brother, Husain, safety for the Minnesota Vikings, were invited to the White House for dinner with President Barack Obama. The two attended the annual Iftar Dinner on Wednesday night celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Arizona\u2019s Abdullah says he was stunned and initially thought [&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-9024","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\/9024","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=9024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}