{"id":142879,"date":"2022-07-26T08:02:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/saudi-arabian-crown-prince-maps-out-neom-project-to-house-9-million-people"},"modified":"2022-07-26T08:02:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:02:19","slug":"saudi-arabian-crown-prince-maps-out-neom-project-to-house-9-million-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/saudi-arabian-crown-prince-maps-out-neom-project-to-house-9-million-people","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabian Crown Prince maps out Neom project to house 9 million people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/saudi-arabian-crown-prince-maps-out-neom-project-to-house-9-million-people.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RIYADH (BLOOMBERG) \u2014 Saudi Arabia wants to build a gigantic megastructure that contains a city for 9 million people, its crown prince announced on Monday (July 25).<\/p>\n<p>The design takes the shape of two parallel buildings with mirrored surfaces, rising 500m above sea level \u2014 taller than the Empire State Building \u2014 and stretching horizontally for more than 100km.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re part of the prince\u2019s US$500 billion (S$693 billion) Neom project, a plan to turn an expanse of desert the size of Belgium into a high-tech region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH (BLOOMBERG) \u2014 Saudi Arabia wants to build a gigantic megastructure that contains a city for 9 million people, its crown prince announced on Monday (July 25). The design takes the shape of two parallel buildings with mirrored surfaces, rising 500m above sea level \u2014 taller than the Empire State Building \u2014 and stretching horizontally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}