{"id":74539,"date":"2009-12-10T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/construction-boom-causes-saudi-arabia-to-run-out-of-sand-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-10T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T13:57:00","slug":"massive-construction-boom-causes-saudi-arabia-to-run-out-of-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/74539","title":{"rendered":"Massive Construction Boom Causes Saudi Arabia To Run Out Of Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b189adb00000000000bfc82&amp;maxX=298&amp;maxY=223\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dubai, luxury mansion, canoe\" width=\"298\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Middle East construction industry is further delayed by a shortage of sand, yes you read that correctly, this is not an April Fool&rsquo;s joke. Saudi Arabia has banned the export of sand and gravel because it hasn&rsquo;t got enough in locations convenient for export according to local press reports!<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/agmetalminer.com\/2009\/12\/09\/saudi-arabia-runs-out-of-sand\/\">Continue reading at Metal Miner &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/construction-boom-causes-saudi-arabia-to-run-out-of-sand-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dubai-newspaper-slams-creditors-compares-them-to-dick-fuld-2009-12\">Dubai Newspaper Slams Creditors&#8217; &quot;Temper Tantrum&quot;, Compares Them To Dick Fuld<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pimco-jumps-into-panic-sold-uae-debt-2009-12\">America&#8217;s Largest Bond Investor Jumps Into The Dubai Carnage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dubai-world-to-sell-overseas-assets-retain-private-equity-arm-2009-12\">Dubai World To Sell Overseas Assets, Retain Private Equity Arm<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/1axUH40R8YA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Middle East construction industry is further delayed by a shortage of sand, yes you read that correctly, this is not an April Fool&rsquo;s joke. Saudi Arabia has banned the export of sand and gravel because it hasn&rsquo;t got enough in locations convenient for export according to local press reports! Continue reading at Metal Miner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}