{"id":185544,"date":"2015-09-24T17:06:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=185544"},"modified":"2015-09-24T17:06:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:06:34","slug":"ahmed-mohameds-family-hires-lawyers-sue-inventor-sons-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/ahmed-mohameds-family-hires-lawyers-sue-inventor-sons-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Mohamed&#8217;s family hires lawyers to sue for inventor son\u2019s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The parents of Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim boy who was detained\u00a0for bringing his homemade clock to school, have retained legal counsel to sue over religious persecution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mohamed, who is the son of a Muslim immigrant from Sudan, was arrested earlier this month after his clock was mistaken for a bomb by a teacher at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was led out of school in handcuffs, sparking outrage on social media and attracting the attention of President Barack Obama, who later invited the\u00a0boy to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should inspire more kids like you to like science,\u201d the US president tweeted on September 16. \u201cIt\u2019s what makes America great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that \u201cAhmed&#8217;s teachers have failed him,\u201d adding that the incident could serve as a &#8220;teachable moment&#8221; about how &#8220;pernicious stereotypes&#8221; can affect people&#8217;s judgment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/09\/24\/430504\/Ahmed-Mohamed-homemade-clock-lawsuit-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parents of Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim boy who was detained\u00a0for bringing his homemade clock to school, have retained legal counsel to sue over religious persecution. Mohamed, who is the son of a Muslim immigrant from Sudan, was arrested earlier this month after his clock was mistaken for a bomb by a teacher at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}