{"id":20208,"date":"2012-06-10T21:03:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T17:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=20208"},"modified":"2012-06-10T21:08:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T17:08:17","slug":"worlds-tallest-tale-um-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/region\/gcc\/saudi-arabia\/worlds-tallest-tale-um-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi&#8217;s Kingdom Tower: The World&#8217;s Tallest Tale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/2012\/06\/worlds-tallest-tale-um-building\/kingdom_tower5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20209\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20209\" title=\"Kingdom_Tower5\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kingdom_Tower5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kingdom_Tower5.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kingdom_Tower5-634x331.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the story?<\/strong>\u00a0The Kingdom Tower will become one of the world&#8217;s top tourism destinations once it is completed, senior project officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/kingdom-tower-will-be-global-tourism-hit-officials-461413.html\">have said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What you mean the one that will be built in Saudi?<\/strong> Yep<\/p>\n<p><strong>But it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/saudi-arabia.travisa.com\/TVSVisaInstructions.aspx?CitizenshipID=US&amp;CountryID=SA&amp;TravelerTypeID=TO&amp;ResidenceID=US&amp;PartnerID=TA&amp;GLID=AUS\">almost impossible to get a tourist <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/saudi-arabia.travisa.com\/TVSVisaInstructions.aspx?CitizenshipID=US&amp;CountryID=SA&amp;TravelerTypeID=TO&amp;ResidenceID=US&amp;PartnerID=TA&amp;GLID=AUS\">visa<\/a> into Saudi&#8230;<\/strong> Um, yes that&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So&#8230; How can it become the world&#8217;s largest tourist attraction if you cannot get in the country to see it? \u00a0<\/strong>Um&#8230; From a distance maybe&#8230; It is quite big&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What a pointless story.<\/strong> True, but quite a pointy building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials said the Kingdom Tower will become a global tourism attraction. How so asks MidEastPosts.com?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,10,893],"tags":[1442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}