{"id":70,"date":"2006-05-13T19:49:30","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T03:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbrace.laughingsquid.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/05\/13\/wonder-fish-caught-in-kenya\/"},"modified":"2006-05-13T19:49:30","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T03:49:30","slug":"wonder-fish-caught-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wonder fish&#8217; caught in Kenya&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published: 14 May 2006<\/p>\n<p>MOMBASA: A tuna fish caught in the Indian Ocean has excited Kenyan Muslims who are flocking here by the hundreds to see a Quranic verse apparently embedded in its scales.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the &#8220;wonder fish&#8221; by locals in this port city, the 2.5kg tuna has attracted so much attention it has been placed in the custody of the National Fisheries Department for safekeeping.<\/p>\n<p>The otherwise ordinary fish caught the attention of fishmonger Omar Mohammed Awadh who pulled it out of a catch when he noticed what seemed to be Arabic writing among the scales near its tail.<\/p>\n<p>Arabic scholars determined the writing was a verse meaning &#8220;God is the greatest of all providers&#8221;, said Hassan Mohamed Hassan, with the National Museums of Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been confirmed as a verse from the Quran,&#8221; said Sheikh Mombasa Dor, the secretary-general of the Council of Imams and Preachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: 14 May 2006 MOMBASA: A tuna fish caught in the Indian Ocean has excited Kenyan Muslims who are flocking here by the hundreds to see a Quranic verse apparently embedded in its scales. Dubbed the &#8220;wonder fish&#8221; by locals in this port city, the 2.5kg tuna has attracted so much attention it has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}