{"id":87,"date":"2008-02-02T19:38:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T19:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2008\/02\/02\/stay-the-hell-out-of-dubai\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T19:42:54","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T19:42:54","slug":"stay-the-hell-out-of-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2008\/02\/02\/stay-the-hell-out-of-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay the hell out of Dubai."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how much cash they offer. It&#8217;s trying to remake itself as a tourist trap, but <a href=\"http:\/\/users.livejournal.com\/_yungfuktoi_\/306878.html\">hasn&#8217;t quite got the concept clear<\/a>. Online petition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/cle2008\/petition.html\">here<\/a>, for what that&#8217;s worth. The British Consulate is on the case, but it&#8217;s difficult since he hasn&#8217;t been charged with anything yet. Further reading: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/southern_counties\/4200952.stm\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2005\/04\/26\/wilk26.xml\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/article.jsp?content=n1219129A\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/01\/world\/middleeast\/01dubai.html\">4<\/a>. Feel free to spread this around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how much cash they offer. It&#8217;s trying to remake itself as a tourist trap, but hasn&#8217;t quite got the concept clear. Online petition here, for what that&#8217;s worth. The British Consulate is on the case, but it&#8217;s difficult since he hasn&#8217;t been charged with anything yet. Further reading: 1, 2, 3, 4. Feel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2008\/02\/02\/stay-the-hell-out-of-dubai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stay the hell out of Dubai.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-1p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}