{"id":1101,"date":"2009-02-18T20:09:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T01:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2009\/02\/18\/repostworst-business-idea-ever-why-is-dubai-in-so-much-trouble-fp-passport\/"},"modified":"2009-02-18T20:09:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T01:09:02","slug":"repostworst-business-idea-ever-why-is-dubai-in-so-much-trouble-fp-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/18\/repostworst-business-idea-ever-why-is-dubai-in-so-much-trouble-fp-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Worst Business Idea Ever? : Why is Dubai in so much trouble? &#124; FP Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Why is Dubai in so much trouble?<br \/>\nWed, 02\/18\/2009 &#8211; 2:49pm<br \/>\nGreat rant from blogger David Galbraith via Boing Boing:<br \/>\nShort of opening a Radio Shack in an Amish town, Dubai is the world\u2019s worst business idea and there isn\u2019t even any oil. <strong>Imagine proposing to build Vegas in a place where sex and drugs and rock and roll are an anathema.<\/strong> This is effectively the proposition that created Dubai &#8211; it was a stupid idea before the crash, and now it is dangerous.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/02\/18\/why_is_dubai_in_so_much_trouble\">Why is Dubai in so much trouble? | FP Passport<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Dubai in so much trouble? Wed, 02\/18\/2009 &#8211; 2:49pm Great rant from blogger David Galbraith via Boing Boing: Short of opening a Radio Shack in an Amish town, Dubai is the world\u2019s worst business idea and there isn\u2019t even any oil. Imagine proposing to build Vegas in a place where sex and drugs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/18\/repostworst-business-idea-ever-why-is-dubai-in-so-much-trouble-fp-passport\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:Worst Business Idea Ever? : Why is Dubai in so much trouble? &#124; FP Passport&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}