{"id":165,"date":"2009-06-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2009\/06\/a-ghost-city.html"},"modified":"2013-01-17T14:52:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T10:52:44","slug":"a-ghost-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2009\/06\/a-ghost-city.html","title":{"rendered":"a ghost city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stu took these photos the other day when he was passing Ajman.  All work appears to have stopped completely on &#8220;Emirates City&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>As you can see the cranes are standing still and there isn&#8217;t a worker to be seen.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Artists impressions<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/emirates_city_01.jpg\" alt=\"Emirates City 01\" title=\"Emirates City 01\" width=\"320\" height=\"242\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/emirates_city_01.jpg 320w, https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/emirates_city_01-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/emirates_city_02.jpg\" alt=\"Emirates City 02\" title=\"Emirates City 02\" width=\"320\" height=\"242\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/emirates_city_02.jpg 320w, https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/emirates_city_02-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/emirates_city_03.jpg\" alt=\"Emirates City 03\" title=\"Emirates City 03\" width=\"320\" height=\"242\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/emirates_city_03.jpg 320w, https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/emirates_city_03-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Reality<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00111.jpg\" alt=\"Reality 01\" title=\"Reality 01\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00111.jpg 320w, https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00111-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00112.jpg\" alt=\"Reality 02\" title=\"Reality 02\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00112.jpg 320w, https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00112-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00113.jpg\" alt=\"Reality 03\" title=\"Reality 03\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00113.jpg 320w, https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00113-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00114.jpg\" alt=\"Reality 04\" title=\"Reality 04\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00114.jpg 320w, https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC00114-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In fact all along The Emirates Road billboards proclaiming these new lush developments are now empty and blank, or tattered and torn.<\/p>\n<p>Signs of the times I&#8217;m afraid.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stu took these photos the other day when he was passing Ajman. All work appears to have stopped completely on &#8220;Emirates City&#8221;. As you can see the cranes are standing still and there isn&#8217;t a worker to be seen. Artists impressions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}