{"id":660,"date":"2020-04-03T20:39:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=660"},"modified":"2020-04-03T20:39:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:39:46","slug":"current-middle-east-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/04\/03\/current-middle-east-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Middle East Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While pondering things to write about today I came across a rather interesting article about something that I&#8217;ve been yet to think of. During all of the outbreak the only thing I feel that I&#8217;ve thought about is how much longer I&#8217;m stuck in my house, and when am I going to be finished with online school. I&#8217;ve been researching the stock market, and keeping in touch with basic world news.<\/p>\n<p>However after tying both these world interests and stock interests together I found an article that was rather alarming. The Arab Tourism Organization has projected to lose $40 Billion, if the COVID-19 virus continues to ravage the world in line with its projections through the end of April.<\/p>\n<p>This was a huge shock to me just to read, I mean 40 billion dollars? That&#8217;s enough to shut down probably hundreds of vacation areas, imagine the restaurants or shopping areas that purely rely on tourism to come around. A truly sad number, and sad to read about for the people that will be affected by this.<\/p>\n<p>Any of the above factual information is credited to the Haaretz news paper, I am not claiming as my own. Simply analyzing it, and giving other people things to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While pondering things to write about today I came across a rather interesting article about something that I&#8217;ve been yet to think of. During all of the outbreak the only thing I feel that I&#8217;ve thought about is how much longer I&#8217;m stuck in my house, and when am I going to be finished with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}