{"id":1943,"date":"2009-02-13T17:47:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T08:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2009-02-14T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T01:40:33","slug":"sand-not-the-most-valuable-commodity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/13\/sand-not-the-most-valuable-commodity\/","title":{"rendered":"This just in: Sand, Not the Most Valuable Commodity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai&#8217;s economy is free-falling, the NY Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/12\/world\/middleeast\/12dubai.html?hp\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dubai\">A city<\/a> whose entire economy was based on <em>selling land<\/em> (and financial services) in the middle of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arabian_Desert\">2,330,000 sq. km <em>desert<\/em><\/a>&#8230; Gee, I wonder how that bubble came to pop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai&#8217;s economy is free-falling, the NY Times reports&#8230; A city whose entire economy was based on selling land (and financial services) in the middle of a 2,330,000 sq. km desert&#8230; Gee, I wonder how that bubble came to pop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,22,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-le-sigh","category-places","category-quickies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}