{"id":31361,"date":"2022-07-13T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/an-appreciation-of-dubai-by-zeina-hashem-beck-before-she-leaves#id32137"},"modified":"2022-07-13T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:30:00","slug":"sometimes-it-takes-a-departure-to-begin-staying-an-appreciation-of-dubai-by-zeina-hashem-beck-before-she-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/sometimes-it-takes-a-departure-to-begin-staying-an-appreciation-of-dubai-by-zeina-hashem-beck-before-she-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSometimes it takes a departure to begin staying.\u201d An appreciation of Dubai by Zeina Hashem Beck before she leaves."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m mourning Arabic, which my children will no longer learn in school. And I&rsquo;m mourning the bougainvillea in my garden&mdash;my companions, my beauties, my trees with infinite iridescent flowers like thousands of windows.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/newlinesmag.com\/first-person\/the-last-of-the-bougainvillea-years\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; New\/Lines Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/an-appreciation-of-dubai-by-zeina-hashem-beck-before-she-leaves\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        I&rsquo;m mourning Arabic, which my children will no longer learn in school. And I&rsquo;m mourning the bougainvillea in my garden&mdash;my companions, my beauties, my trees with infinite iridescent flowers like thousands&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31362,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31361\/revisions\/31362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}