{"id":4171,"date":"2010-03-24T11:14:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2010-03-24T11:14:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:14:42","slug":"4171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/4171\/","title":{"rendered":"On Top of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/burj_dubai-model-2007115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"516\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/burj_dubai-model-2007115.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/burj_dubai-model-2007115-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/burj_dubai-model-2007115-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/burj_dubai-model-2007115-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sz-road4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"516\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sz-road4.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sz-road4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sz-road4-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sz-road4-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/other-side2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"516\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/other-side2.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/other-side2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/other-side2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/other-side2-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vita Sackville-West was depressed by Hillary and Norgay&#8217;s ascent to the peak of Everest, believing that there should be places on earth untrod by human feet. How would she have liked the world&#8217;s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai? I am afraid that she would be horrified, although this Burj is by far Dubai&#8217;s most beautiful building, hopefully now distracting attention from the horrible Burj Arab Hotel. Many people would like to ask God if he regrets Dubai, but now that we can ride the 800 metres plus to the top of Burj Khalifa and look at it from His vantage point perhaps we can see that he might like it the way it is, by night at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vita Sackville-West was depressed by Hillary and Norgay&#8217;s ascent to the peak of Everest, believing that there should be places on earth untrod by human feet. How would she have liked the world&#8217;s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai? I am afraid that she would be horrified, although this Burj is by far Dubai&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}