{"id":56449,"date":"2018-09-01T03:17:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T01:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/01\/saudi-arabia-may-dig-canal-to-turn-qatar-into-an-island\/"},"modified":"2018-09-01T03:17:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T01:17:37","slug":"saudi-arabia-may-dig-canal-to-turn-qatar-into-an-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=56449","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia may dig canal to turn Qatar into an island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plan takes shape amid bitter dispute that led the Saudis, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt to cut ties with small peninsula nation A Saudi official hinted on Friday the kingdom was moving forward with a plan to dig a canal that would turn the neighbouring Qatari peninsula into an island, amid a diplomatic feud between the Gulf nations.\u201cI am impatiently waiting for details on the implementation of the Salwa island project, a great, historic project that will change the geography of the region,\u201d Saud al-Qahtani, a senior adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, said on Twitter. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/sep\/01\/saudi-arabia-may-dig-canal-to-turn-qatar-into-an-island\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia may dig canal to turn Qatar into an island<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plan takes shape amid bitter dispute that led the Saudis, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt to cut ties with small peninsula nation A Saudi official hinted on Friday the kingdom was moving forward with a plan to dig a canal that would turn the neighbouring Qatari peninsula into an island, amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}