{"id":15269,"date":"2021-08-15T14:44:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=15269"},"modified":"2021-08-15T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T21:44:16","slug":"design-dunking-on-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/15\/design-dunking-on-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Design: Dunking on Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;A strange mixture between Futurama &amp; Evil Los Angeles&#8230; The worst of urban planning and capitalism, plus some slavery for good measure. Welcome to Dubai, everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This darkly funny piece presents some eye-opening info on a petrodollar playground literally sinking into the sea. Along the way it draws comparisons to past misallocations of every sort of capital (e.g. as in Communist Romania, &#8220;Smooth-brained dictator + construction = dumb shit.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I should hasten to say that I have never visited Dubai &amp; don&#8217;t know of any connection with anyone connected with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dubai Is A Parody Of The 21st Century\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SacQ2YdVOyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A strange mixture between Futurama &amp; Evil Los Angeles&#8230; The worst of urban planning and capitalism, plus some slavery for good measure. Welcome to Dubai, everyone.&#8221; This darkly funny piece presents some eye-opening info on a petrodollar playground literally sinking into the sea. Along the way it draws comparisons to past misallocations of every sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15270,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions\/15270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}