{"id":1387,"date":"2008-10-13T05:33:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T05:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xbizx.com\/index.php\/1387\/reaching-for-a-higher-profile-abu-dhabi-opens-a-hub-for-western-media-international-herald-tribune\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T05:33:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T05:33:11","slug":"reaching-for-a-higher-profile-abu-dhabi-opens-a-hub-for-western-media-international-herald-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1387\/reaching-for-a-higher-profile-abu-dhabi-opens-a-hub-for-western-media-international-herald-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching for a higher profile, Abu Dhabi opens a hub for Western media &#8211; International Herald Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/10\/13\/business\/13deal.php'>Reaching for a higher profile, Abu Dhabi opens a hub for Western media &#8211; International Herald Tribune<\/a><br \/>Twenty years ago, Abu Dhabi&#8217;s cultural cachet in the West was as a punch line in the cartoon &#8220;Garfield.&#8221; Today, backed with petrodollars, Abu Dhabi is fast becoming an international cultural hub and attracting American media companies. On Sunday, a   <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/12\/AR2008101201725.html'>The Culprit Could Be Dead, But Local Tax Case Lives On &#8211; Washington Post<\/a><br \/>The FBI is inquiring whether FirstPay owner Mark Rothman is actually dead. (By Marvin Joseph &#8212; The Washington Post) Buy Photo By the time FirstPay Inc. shuttered its doors and declared bankruptcy in 2003, the Silver Spring company was managing   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaching for a higher profile, Abu Dhabi opens a hub for Western media &#8211; International Herald TribuneTwenty years ago, Abu Dhabi&#8217;s cultural cachet in the West was as a punch line in the cartoon &#8220;Garfield.&#8221; Today, backed with petrodollars, Abu Dhabi is fast becoming an international cultural hub and attracting American media companies. On Sunday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1387\/reaching-for-a-higher-profile-abu-dhabi-opens-a-hub-for-western-media-international-herald-tribune\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reaching for a higher profile, Abu Dhabi opens a hub for Western media &#8211; International Herald Tribune<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}