{"id":419,"date":"2007-03-30T07:30:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T06:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=419"},"modified":"2007-03-30T07:30:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T06:30:49","slug":"forgotten-world-75-united-arab-emirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten world (75): United Arab Emirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE\">United Arab Emirates<\/a> is a Middle Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula, comprising seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajm\u0101n, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain.<br \/>\nThese emirates were once little more than oil outposts in the desert, but they are fast reinventing themselves as a cultural and recreational hub with tens of billions of dollars of investment transforming Abu Dhabi and Dubai especially.<br \/>\nThe Emirates&#8217; capital plans an &#8220;upscale cultural district&#8221; on the island of Saadiyat, with a $400 million Guggenheim museum part of a $27 billion government-funded development that will include museums, a concert hall and art galleries alongside two golf courses, hotels and an &#8220;iconic 7-star property&#8221;.<br \/>\nLife is not wonderful for everyone in the Emirates. Migrant construction workers in Dubai earn an average wage of US $150 per month and any form of strike or protest is illegal under UAE labour law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates is a Middle Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula, comprising seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajm\u0101n, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain. These emirates were once little more than oil outposts in the desert, but they are fast reinventing themselves as a cultural and recreational hub [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}