{"id":202,"date":"2009-01-15T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2009\/01\/a-big-storm-and-remember-the-shopping.html"},"modified":"2015-08-06T18:54:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T14:54:46","slug":"a-big-storm-remember-the-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2009\/01\/a-big-storm-remember-the-shopping.html","title":{"rendered":"a big storm, and remember the shopping!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I never thought I would see lightning in Dubai, but last night we had a humdinger of a storm complete with rolling thunder and flashes of lightning. The really cool pic here is from the UAE community blog, taken by Stained; I tried to take a picture with my phone but it focused on the window and not the rain outside and it wasn&#8217;t so good.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_6156_filtered.jpg\" alt=\"lightening\" title=\"lightening\" width=\"221\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_6156_filtered.jpg 221w, https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_6156_filtered-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget that the Dubai Shopping Festival begins today, and runs for a full month.  So forget about the credit crunch for a moment and treat yourself to something nice why don&#8217;t you? Maybe I will even see you there!!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I never thought I would see lightning in Dubai, but last night we had a humdinger of a storm complete with rolling thunder and flashes of lightning. The really cool pic here is from the UAE community blog, taken by Stained; I tried to take a picture with my phone but it focused on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shopping","category-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","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=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}