{"id":74,"date":"2005-06-30T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/06\/30\/dubai\/"},"modified":"2015-10-11T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T00:04:07","slug":"dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/06\/30\/dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty Magazine has an interesting article on Dubai called <a href=\"http:\/\/libertyunbound.com\/archive\/2005_07\/casey-dubai.html\">Freedom Blossoms in the Arabian Desert<\/a> about the remarkable prosperity and freedom in that city.<br \/>\nA quick internet search shows reports such as this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/anti-semitism\/relunitedarabemirates00.html\">Report on International Religious Freedom<\/a> and this report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatreporter.com\/modules.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=310\">Sunshine and censorship: Press freedom in UAE<\/a> suggest the Liberty article exaggerates how free it is, suggesting it&#8217;s more like another Singapore than a Hong Kong. But even with that caveat, there&#8217;s still plenty of room to hope that it&#8217;s providing an opportunity for the Muslim world to escape the political systems that have kept it primitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty Magazine has an interesting article on Dubai called Freedom Blossoms in the Arabian Desert about the remarkable prosperity and freedom in that city. A quick internet search shows reports such as this Report on International Religious Freedom and this report on Sunshine and censorship: Press freedom in UAE suggest the Liberty article exaggerates how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom","category-mideast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s80O1l-dubai","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}