{"id":410,"date":"2007-10-30T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2007-10-30T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T13:59:44","slug":"its-all-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s all relative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shouldn&#8217;t have laughed at this headline in the <em>Gulf News<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gulfnews.com\/nation\/Environment\/10163828.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rain expected in UAE at weekend<\/a>. As the post&#8217;s title says, it&#8217;s all relative. It is really no different than Irish papers running stories about a coming run of sunny days.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, it is fair for them to point to rain on the way. The United Arab Emirates, as a desert country, is susceptible to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uaeinteract.com\/uaeint_misc\/weather\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">flash flooding in the south<\/a>, where the rainfall is expected. The country is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gulfnews.com\/nation\/Environment\/10163048.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;water deficit region&#8221;<\/a> and needs every drop it can keep hold of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shouldn&#8217;t have laughed at this headline in the Gulf News: Rain expected in UAE at weekend. As the post&#8217;s title says, it&#8217;s all relative. It is really no different than Irish papers running stories about a coming run of sunny days. Besides, it is fair for them to point to rain on the way. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}