{"id":24,"date":"2007-07-14T16:12:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T20:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/wasim\/2007\/07\/14\/before-there-were-microphones-there-was"},"modified":"2007-07-14T16:15:04","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T20:15:04","slug":"before-there-were-microphones-there-was-the-mosque-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/2007\/07\/14\/before-there-were-microphones-there-was-the-mosque-dome\/","title":{"rendered":"Before there were microphones, there was the mosque dome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing mosque in Esfahan, Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YYOytbD4Z0s\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YYOytbD4Z0s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think of a time when imams had to address enormous prayer halls of thousands of people &#8212; without a microphone.\u00a0\u00a0 The dome and mihrab (prayer niche)\u00a0were an architectural technique\u00a0to amplify the imam&#8217;s voice and reverberate it back to the congregation.\u00a0\u00a0 From the dome to the mihrab to the minaret, every architectural\u00a0freature of the traditional mosque had some utility.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing mosque in Esfahan, Iran.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YYOytbD4Z0s Think of a time when imams had to address enormous prayer halls of thousands of people &#8212; without a microphone.\u00a0\u00a0 The dome and mihrab (prayer niche)\u00a0were an architectural technique\u00a0to amplify the imam&#8217;s voice and reverberate it back to the congregation.\u00a0\u00a0 From the dome to the mihrab to the minaret, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}