{"id":108,"date":"2015-09-04T08:20:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T08:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2015-09-04T08:20:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T08:20:04","slug":"only-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Only in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I invited some friends and went shopping for food. Took a cart because it was a little more than usual. I asked the packer guy whether I can take the cart.<br \/>\n&#8216;No&#8217;.<br \/>\n&#8216;Do you do delivery?&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Walking or car?&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Walking.&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Sure.&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;How much is it?&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Nothing, I will come with you, no problem.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It felt so wrong walking next to the guy pushing the cart. To my building. Into my building. Into the elevator. WTF?! Almost invited him to the party.<\/p>\n<p>Aaah and for everyone asking &#8216;why can&#8217;t we have the same in our country?!&#8217;. Well it&#8217;s because of\u00a0non-wage labour costs. This poor fellow earns probably nothing. Or a little more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I invited some friends and went shopping for food. Took a cart because it was a little more than usual. I asked the packer guy whether I can take the cart. &#8216;No&#8217;. &#8216;Do you do delivery?&#8217; &#8216;Walking or car?&#8217; &#8216;Walking.&#8217; &#8216;Sure.&#8217; &#8216;How much is it?&#8217; &#8216;Nothing, I will come with you, no problem.&#8217; It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/?p=108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Only in Dubai<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,80,1],"tags":[84,83,82,81],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-only-in-dubai","category-uncategorized","tag-service-award","tag-service-culture","tag-servicewuste-deutschland","tag-shopping-cart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}