{"id":1603,"date":"2006-09-18T13:41:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T13:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2006-09-18T13:41:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T13:41:39","slug":"2006-9-18-welcome-to-egypt-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"252\" height=\"167\" alt=\"Peekaboolite.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/Peekaboolite.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/06\/06\/supersize-it\/\">the survey<\/a> at the beginning of the summer that suggested tourists are unhappy with the way they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re treated in Egypt? If memory serves, it blamed overcharging service industry types for many visitors making Egypt a once-in-a-lifetime experience. After a weekend trip across the Sinai, though, I think there may be another culprit, and I think the little fellow behind his clipboard might know who it is.<\/p>\n<p>Snapped lounging at a highway check-stop making gestures all-too-familiar to women around Cairo, he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want his picture to be taken and wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about to offer his thoughts on the macro-economic implications of the country being overrun by half-trained goons, but I think his input is clear enough.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing that there are quite a few people in government here who are familiar enough with Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u201dif only Switzerland\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto understand that being openly harassed, be it by well-armed soldiers on street corners or by <em>beltagui<\/em> with guns stuffed into their jeans in the middle of the desert, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t something that is going to encourage tourists to make a return visit.<\/p>\n<p>Pity that taxi drivers and waiters are so much easier to blame.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"252\" height=\"167\" alt=\"Peekaboolite.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/Peekaboolite.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nRemember <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/06\/06\/supersize-it\/\">the survey<\/a> at the beginning of the summer that suggested tourists are unhappy with the way they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re treated in Egypt? If memory serves, it blamed overcharging service industry types for many visitors making Egypt a once-in-a-lifetime experience. After a weekend trip across the Sinai, though, I think there may be another culprit, and I think the little fellow behind his clipboard might know who it is.<br \/>\nSnapped lounging at a highway check-stop making gestures all-too-familiar to women around Cairo, he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want his picture to be taken and wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about to offer his thoughts on the macro-economic implications of the country being overrun by half-trained goons, but I think his input is clear enough.<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing that there are quite a few people in government here who are familiar enough with Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u201dif only Switzerland\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto understand that being openly harassed, be it by well-armed soldiers on street corners or by <em>beltagui<\/em> with guns stuffed into their jeans in the middle of the desert, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t something that is going to encourage tourists to make a return visit.<br \/>\nPity that taxi drivers and waiters are so much easier to blame.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[82,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}