{"id":791,"date":"2010-01-04T17:26:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T15:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/?p=791"},"modified":"2010-01-05T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T13:07:56","slug":"burj-dubai-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2010\/01\/04\/burj-dubai-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Burj Dubai &#8211; 818 m high and ready!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burj Dubai <em>(or, as how I prefer to call it, the &#8220;New <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isengard#Orthanc\">Tower of Saruman<\/a>&#8221; ;-)<\/em> will be officially inaugurated today!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read the info in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarthaksinghal.com\/blog\/burj-dubai-inauguration-on-jan-4th-2010\">Sarthak Singhal<\/a>&#8216;s blog, who in his free time likes to travel a lot (and in his other time works as Adobe engineer for the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/sarthak\/\">Adobe Fireworks<\/a> amazing graphic design app;-).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2010\/01\/burj-dubai-by-sarthak-singhal.jpg\" title=\"Burj Dubai, 2009\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2010\/01\/burj-dubai-by-sarthak-singhal.th.jpg\" alt=\"Burj Dubai tower\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(photo of the Burj Dubai tower, a few months before it was finished)<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t even believe that they could finish this gigantic construction (is the world at <em>crisis<\/em> or?&#8230;), but looks like the tower is a fact and is high the amazing 818 metres (2&#8217;684 ft)!<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony can be watched live today on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burjdubai.com\/\">www.burjdubai.com<\/a>, if you&#8217;re curious&#8230; :)<\/p>\n<p>(UPDATE @ 1010\/Jan\/01: Tower was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/Home\/World-News\/Burj-Dubai-Tower-Worlds-Tallest-Building-Opens-In-Dubai\/Article\/201001115513655\">renamed at the opening<\/a>, and its height confirmed to be 828 m!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burj Dubai (or, as how I prefer to call it, the &#8220;New Tower of Saruman&#8221; ;-) will be officially inaugurated today! I&#8217;ve read the info in Sarthak Singhal&#8216;s blog, who in his free time likes to travel a lot (and in his other time works as Adobe engineer for the Adobe Fireworks amazing graphic design&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}