{"id":1613,"date":"2009-12-04T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2009-12-04T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T15:03:16","slug":"two-slices-of-dubai-modern-on-the-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/12\/04\/two-slices-of-dubai-modern-on-the-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Two slices of Dubai, modern on the outside\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An almost technical, brief, eye-opening account of how Sharia law <a href=\"http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/04\/86736\/nakheel-and-the-sukuk-legal-spook\/\">affects financial deals<\/a> in Dubai in the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p>From a slow-burning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/johann-hari\/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html\">diatribe<\/a> in the Independent: &#8220;The thing you have to understand about Dubai is \u2013 nothing is what it seems,&#8221; Karen says at last. &#8220;Nothing. This isn&#8217;t a city, it&#8217;s a con-job. They lure you in telling you it&#8217;s one thing \u2013 a modern kind of place \u2013 but beneath the surface it&#8217;s a medieval dictatorship.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An almost technical, brief, eye-opening account of how Sharia law affects financial deals in Dubai in the Financial Times. From a slow-burning diatribe in the Independent: &#8220;The thing you have to understand about Dubai is \u2013 nothing is what it seems,&#8221; Karen says at last. &#8220;Nothing. This isn&#8217;t a city, it&#8217;s a con-job. They lure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}