{"id":5288,"date":"2024-03-14T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/i-was-a-dubai-doubter-but-found-things-there-to-love\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:06:25","slug":"i-was-a-dubai-doubter-but-found-things-there-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/i-was-a-dubai-doubter-but-found-things-there-to-love\/","title":{"rendered":"I was a Dubai doubter \u2013 but found things there to love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>Some marriages are made in heaven, others in the land of square pegs and round holes, of chalk and cheese. Dubai and me \u2013 that\u2019s us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In truth, the disparity between what it and I stand for is so vast that its position in the top five places I have never wanted to visit has remained unassailable for decades, despite regular requests for me to go there from a close friend who worked in the emirate for eight years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Granted, she didn\u2019t do much to sell the place \u2013 describing a city where she lived a lonely and disconnected life, but it was the price&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/destinations\/middle-east\/united-arab-emirates\/dubai\/dubai-doubter-found-things-love\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some marriages are made in heaven, others in the land of square pegs and round holes, of chalk and cheese. Dubai and me \u2013 that\u2019s us.\u00a0 In truth, the disparity between what it and I stand for is so vast that its position in the top five places I have never wanted to visit has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bastakiya-quarter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}