{"id":6366,"date":"2011-04-27T13:10:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2011-07-16T12:20:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:20:24","slug":"oh-no-doha-enters-tallest-building-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-business\/middle-east-economics-analysis\/oh-no-doha-enters-tallest-building-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh No&#8230; Doha enters Tallest Building Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/qatar_375.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6367\" title=\"qatar_375\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/qatar_375-e1303815703467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/qatar_375-e1303815703467.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/qatar_375-e1303815703467-145x92.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a>Apparently there are plans afoot to build the world\u2019s tallest tower somewhere in Doha, <a href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/news\/gulf\/qatar\/qatar-plans-to-construct-tallest-tower-in-the-world-1.797073\">according <\/a>to the ever reliable Gulf News.<\/p>\n<p>This disappoints me. Qatar \u2013 as a whole \u2013 seems to have eschewed the worst Dubaian excesses of gaudy, puerile, envious games of one-upmanship. Here\u2019s hoping this isn\u2019t the harbinger of more hideous projects such as the Armani hotel in Dubai or the kitschest place on earth, the Burj Al Arab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID ROBERTS: We&#8217;ve managed to avoid the worst of Dubai&#8217;s excesses &#8211; until now.  Yes, Doha is set to enter the region&#8217;s competition to build the world&#8217;s tallest tower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,152],"tags":[1060,197,103,18307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366"}],"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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}