{"id":83055,"date":"2026-01-02T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T10:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83055"},"modified":"2026-01-02T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T10:30:01","slug":"mamdani-becomes-first-new-york-mayor-to-be-sworn-in-on-the-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/02\/mamdani-becomes-first-new-york-mayor-to-be-sworn-in-on-the-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani becomes first New York mayor to be sworn in on the Quran"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Tp3cQ.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=583&amp;y=335&amp;s=68&amp;d=68\" alt=\"SEI279347818.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/zohran-mamdani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a>\u00a0became the first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">New York<\/a>\u00a0City mayor to be sworn in using the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/quran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Quran<\/a>, in a symbolic inauguration performed at the stroke of midnight on New Year\u2019s Eve. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/mamdani-becomes-first-new-york-mayor-to-be-sworn-in-on-the-quran\/ar-AA1Tp8pq?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69579d54a3874314b84d90edbe03f60c&amp;ei=19\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Zohran Mamdani\u00a0became the first\u00a0New York\u00a0City mayor to be sworn in using the\u00a0Quran, in a symbolic inauguration performed at the stroke of midnight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mamdani-sworn-in.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83057,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83055\/revisions\/83057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}