{"id":88162,"date":"2026-11-07T14:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T19:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88162"},"modified":"2026-11-07T14:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T19:34:59","slug":"el-sayed-declares-michigan-capital-of-arab-america-in-first-remarks-as-senator-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/el-sayed-declares-michigan-capital-of-arab-america-in-first-remarks-as-senator-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Sayed Declares Michigan \u2018Capital Of Arab America\u2019 In First Remarks As Senator-Elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Dailywire<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed wasted little time making his Arab-American political identity a centerpiece of his post-election message, declaring that Michigan \u2014 not Washington, D.C. \u2014 is the \u201ccapital of Arab America\u201d during remarks following his victory over Republican Mike Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honored to be the next United States senator from the great state of Michigan,\u201d El-Sayed said. \u201cWhich, of course, I know we\u2019re here in D.C., which, of course, is the capital of the United States of America, but Michigan is the capital of Arab America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dailywire: Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed wasted little time making his Arab-American political identity a centerpiece of his post-election message,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88163,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88162\/revisions\/88163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}