{"id":1084,"date":"2010-08-16T18:32:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2010-08-16T18:53:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:53:44","slug":"new-images-from-around-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"New Images from Around Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2010.08.15.01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2010.08.15.02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Some new interesting additions to the skyline of the Dubai CBD that are still under construction. These two buildings face each other across Sheikh Zayed Road and come together as a sort of gateway of postmodern reference halfway along the canyon of the contemporary. I think that they are a welcome diversion from the slightly cacophonous colored glass symphony that surrounds them.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2010.08.15.03.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2010.08.15.04.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2010.08.15.05.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2010.08.15.06.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<small>In front of the Crown Plaza on Sheikh Zayed Road<\/small><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2010.08.15.07.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<small>The Crown Plaza<\/small><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2010.08.15.08.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<small>We&#8217;ve seen this advertisement around town for a while now. It has always made us wonder what sort of apocalyptic black hole the little girl is pointing into where your good deeds are apparently delivered.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2010.08.15.09.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Sweet example of the local nose greeting. We have no idea what this sign says. The best we could put together with google translate is &#8220;And the house of civil branches confidently weaves alone, signed and embroidered.&#8221; It&#8217;s really beautiful as a poem in its own right. If anyone has the correct translation, please let us know.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2010.08.15.10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some new interesting additions to the skyline of the Dubai CBD that are still under construction. These two buildings face each other across Sheikh Zayed Road and come together as a sort of gateway of postmodern reference halfway along the canyon of the contemporary. I think that they are a welcome diversion from the slightly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=1084\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Images from Around Dubai&#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-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}