{"id":13889,"date":"2012-01-10T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T11:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=13889"},"modified":"2012-01-11T13:11:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T09:11:52","slug":"the-modern-way-to-announce-your-babys-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/the-modern-way-to-announce-your-babys-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Modern Way to Announce A Baby&#8217;s Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sheikh-Moe-baby-Zayid-6-1-12-Sukar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13890\" title=\"Sheikh Moe baby Zayid 6-1-12 Sukar\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sheikh-Moe-baby-Zayid-6-1-12-Sukar-e1326195601756.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a>As a sign of the times, the number one birth in the United Arab Emirates was announced on social media platforms Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrincess Haya and I were blessed with a baby boy\u2026 We named him \u2018Zayed\u2019,\u201d is how HH Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai welcomed the arrival of his second child with HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of Jordan on Sunday (January 7).<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Mohammad and Princess Haya, who married in 2004, had their first child, Sheikha Al Jalila, on December 2, 2007. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/michcafe.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/dubai-sheikhas-likeness-to-her-mom.html\">Dubai sheikha\u2019s likeness to her mom<\/a>, April 7, 2011)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/FB_Sheikh_Mo_Tuesday.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13899\" title=\"FB_Sheikh_Mo_Tuesday\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/FB_Sheikh_Mo_Tuesday.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>By Tuesday morning, the good news had been shared 1,407 times on Facebook, with 33,700 likes and 13,322 comments congratulating Sheikh Mohammad and Princess Haya.<\/p>\n<p>Baby Sheikh Zayed is named after the founding father of the UAE, HH Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1918-2004), loved, respected and admired by the people of the Emirates and the international community.<\/p>\n<p>I wish baby Zayed well. I will be teaching my little bird to sing his name. Congratulations to his parents, his sister, his family and citizens of the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MICH CAFE: Facebook and Twitter, it appears, have taken over from newspapers in a key area of life. The recent arrival of a Royal baby in Dubai underlines this fact.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":13890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,173,482,5,187],"tags":[197,39,5908,5905,18305,10142,2288,539,143,166,18316,162,2834],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}