{"id":97,"date":"2025-08-03T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veritasnexus.net\/wordpress1\/?p=97"},"modified":"2025-08-03T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:26:02","slug":"short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritasnexus.net\/wordpress1\/2025\/08\/03\/short-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the good news.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The most powerful celestial being with the Arabic name of Allah has chosen you to be born in one true faith. You are born a Sunni Muslim in the subcontinent. He communicates in Arabic and you speak Punjabi. You are taught religion in an ancient Arabic by your Hafiz father who does not understand Arabic but can recite it fully.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You recognize that the most Arab looking Indian is the most pious , loved by the community and enjoys great status. You try to be more like him, learn Quran by rote and come to USA. You want to fuck a white girl and frequent strip clubs. You pray five times a day, eat zabiha halal and never miss a roza.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At 30, you cannot take it anymore and start doing prostitutes. Finally at 35 you get married. You have a son and you put him in an Islamic school at the mosque. At 10 he starts the hifz program while going to suburban middle school. You want him to be a good Arabic speaking and Quran reciting Muslim. But he likes a white girl. They fall in love and he runs away at 18. You call out to the most powerful being in Arabic reciting duas &#8211; you do not understand but the ship has sailed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your son Ahmed is now married to Susan and she is pregnant<\/p>\n<p>Random short story i wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the good news. &nbsp; The most powerful celestial being with the Arabic name of Allah has chosen you to be born in one true faith. You are born a Sunni Muslim in the subcontinent. He communicates in Arabic and you speak Punjabi. You are taught religion in an ancient Arabic by your Hafiz father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritasnexus.net\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritasnexus.net\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritasnexus.net\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritasnexus.net\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritasnexus.net\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/veritasnexus.net\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/veritasnexus.net\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritasnexus.net\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritasnexus.net\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritasnexus.net\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}