{"id":171,"date":"2005-02-24T13:21:38","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T20:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2019-01-09T16:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T16:22:51","slug":"dropping-a-deuce-211-meters-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/24\/dropping-a-deuce-211-meters-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropping a Deuce 211 Meters Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard from my good friend Mike Perlish for years now about how great, shiny, rich, amazing, etc Dubai is and from the research I&#8217;ve done, in this case he is not embellishing. For instance, take this beautifully designed hotel, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burj-al-arab.com\/\">Burj Al Arab,<\/a> which looks like a giant white sail bursting up out of the sand. I think it&#8217;s the only 6 or 7 star hotel in the world, I know he stayed there and the cheapest room I could find just now was for $817. It&#8217;s also got a helipad jutting out from the side:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Standing 321 meters high on a man made island, the Burj Al Arab has a helipad which is situated 211 meters high, covering a surface area of 415 square meters.<\/p>\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3864 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/dubai_tennis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/dubai_tennis.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/dubai_tennis-230x185.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In case the picture above doesn&#8217;t say 1000 words, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/tennis\/pgStory?contentId=3414244&amp;pageNumber=1\">converted into a tennis court<\/a> earlier this week for the Dubai Tennis Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Agassi and Roger Federer had a friendly volley on it and neither of them fell almost 900 feet to a grisly death below. The link above takes you to Fox Sports which has a 14 pic slide show. Check them out&#8230; they&#8217;re sick!<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"\ufffdhttp:\/\/www.chrisdiclerico.com\/\ufffd\">Chris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard from my good friend Mike Perlish for years now about how great, shiny, rich, amazing, etc Dubai is and from the research I&#8217;ve done, in this case he is not embellishing. For instance, take this beautifully designed hotel, the Burj Al Arab, which looks like a giant white sail bursting up out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[193,308,634,655],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-dubai","tag-hotels","tag-tennis","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}