{"id":17712,"date":"2010-09-13T07:31:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T14:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17712"},"modified":"2010-09-13T08:06:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T15:06:55","slug":"skateboarder-saves-quran-from-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17712","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarder Saves Quran From Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/s-QURAN-BURNING-FAIL-large.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/s-QURAN-BURNING-FAIL-large.jpg','popup','width=260,height=190,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/s-QURAN-BURNING-FAIL-large-tm.jpg\" height=\"146\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"S-Quran-Burning-Fail-Large\" \/><\/a>When a group in Amarillo, Texas tried to burn a Quran on Saturday, September 11, 2010 a local skateboarder  ran through and grabbed the kerosene-soaked book and escaped, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amarillo.com\/news\/local-news\/2010-09-12\/protester-steals-quran-thwarts-burning\" target=\"_blank\">Amarillo.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Jacob Isom<\/strong>, 23, grabbed David Grisham&#8217;s Quran when he became distracted while arguing with several residents at Sam Houston Park about the merits of burning the Islamic holy book. . . &#8220;You&#8217;re just trying to start Holy Wars,&#8221; Isom said of Grisham after he gave the book to a religious leader from the Islamic Center of Amarillo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isom was reportedly carrying a skateboard at the time of the action. We&#8217;re guessing it was a longboard. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amarillo.com\/news\/local-news\/2010-09-12\/protester-steals-quran-thwarts-burning\" target=\"_blank\">Amarillo.com<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/09\/12\/quran-burning-fail-skateboarder_n_714072.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a group in Amarillo, Texas tried to burn a Quran on Saturday, September 11, 2010 a local skateboarder ran through and grabbed the kerosene-soaked book and escaped, according to a story on Amarillo.com. Jacob Isom, 23, grabbed David Grisham&#8217;s Quran when he became distracted while arguing with several residents at Sam Houston Park about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17712"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17721,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17712\/revisions\/17721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}