{"id":228,"date":"2008-06-13T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2008\/06\/dubai-in-mind.html"},"modified":"2012-10-28T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T12:17:09","slug":"dubai-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2008\/06\/dubai-in-mind.html","title":{"rendered":"Dubai in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this a few weeks ago whilst sitting in a workshop in Kenya on the 13th of May this year funnily enough. Stu had accepted the position and the ball had begun to roll..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I imagine.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Thundering hooves and shifting sand,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> a breath of air.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Artificial oasis&#8217;s upon<\/em><br \/>\n<em> a dry and unforgiving land.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A woman laughs.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The chink of glasses raised in toast,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> a successful delivery.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> A well newly sunk<\/em><br \/>\n<em> which will bring great hope.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I expect.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Searing outdoor heat and cool interiors,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> a shopping mecca.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Cultures combined where<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ladies dine in comfort with warriors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this a few weeks ago whilst sitting in a workshop in Kenya on the 13th of May this year funnily enough. Stu had accepted the position and the ball had begun to roll.. I imagine. Thundering hooves and shifting sand, a breath of air. Artificial oasis&#8217;s upon a dry and unforgiving land. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}