{"id":236,"date":"2004-07-03T21:10:19","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T12:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2009-02-01T21:11:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T12:11:40","slug":"morning-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Morning musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting on my balcony just finishing my breakfast and reading the news on my iBook. I just came across a classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.07\/dubai.html?tw=wn_tophead_9\" target=\"_blank\">quote<\/a> :<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2002, Egyptians got 5.3 million tourists and we got 4.7 million,&#8221; says Marwan al-Marri, a junior executive at Dubai&#8217;s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing. &#8220;They have the pyramids, and they do nothing with them. Can you imagine what we&#8217;d do with the pyramids?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine?<br \/>\nWhat would one do with them?<\/p>\n<p>I can imagine an enormous glass geodesic dome encapsulating them and cutting them off from the desert, instantly transplanting the pyramids into a rain forest\/shopping mall\/casino complex\/education centre. Hang on, has that already been done in Las Vegas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting on my balcony just finishing my breakfast and reading the news on my iBook. I just came across a classic quote : &#8220;In 2002, Egyptians got 5.3 million tourists and we got 4.7 million,&#8221; says Marwan al-Marri, a junior executive at Dubai&#8217;s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing. &#8220;They have the pyramids, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}