{"id":1436,"date":"2011-12-31T20:09:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2012-01-01T15:13:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T11:13:44","slug":"camping-with-hamad-al-ghanem-and-his-salukis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Camping with Hamad Al Ghanem and his Salukis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"photonav\" id=\"3b0850ac312688ba\">\n\t<div class=\"container\" style=\"width: auto; height: 350px;\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content\" style=\"background-image: url(http:\/\/journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011.12.31.pano1.jpg);\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"photonav-image\" class=\"image colorbox-off\" src=\"http:\/\/journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011.12.31.pano1.jpg\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div style=\"display: none;\">\n\t\t<div class=\"photonav popup\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden;\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\" style=\"background-image: url(http:\/\/journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011.12.31.pano1.jpg);\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"photonav-image\" class=\"image colorbox-off\" src=\"http:\/\/journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011.12.31.pano1.jpg\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">jQuery(document).ready(function(){jQuery(\"#3b0850ac312688ba\").photoNav({id:\"3b0850ac312688ba\",mode:\"drag\",popup:\"colorbox\",animate:\"none\",position:\"center\",label:\"none\"});});<\/script>\n<\/div><small>drag around in above image, or click to view larger (drag down to see a saluki!)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>We had the great fortune of being invited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabiansaluki.ae\/direct-message.html\" target=\"blank\">Hamad Al Ghanem<\/a> to his winter camp site <a href=\"http:\/\/g.co\/maps\/hgnjj\" target=\"blank\">near Al Ain<\/a> (Remah). We spent a lovely afternoon and evening walking around the protected wilderness with Hamad, his friends, and two of his Salukis, Sawad and La&#8217;bah. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011.12.31.lr.039.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Hamad&#8217;s generosity has no limits. The feast of Biryani was followed by an evening of star-gazing, tea with milk and ginger, and traditional bread cooked over a fire by Hamad&#8217;s cousin who happened to be passing by. It was just perfect. 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We had the great fortune of being invited by Hamad Al Ghanem to his winter camp site near Al Ain (Remah). We spent a lovely afternoon and evening walking around the protected wilderness with Hamad, his friends, and two &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=1436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Camping with Hamad Al Ghanem and his Salukis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}