{"id":462,"date":"2005-04-04T16:16:58","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T23:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2005-04-04T16:16:58","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T23:16:58","slug":"looks-like-the-mine-is-bigger-syndrome-isnt-limited-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/04\/looks-like-the-mine-is-bigger-syndrome-isnt-limited-to-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks like the &#8220;Mine-is-Bigger&#8221; Syndrome isn&#8217;t limited to the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now the Emiratis are getting into the game:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2005\/TECH\/03\/31\/emirates.skyscraper.ap\/vert.burj.dubai.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><I>An artist drawing of the Burj Dubai &#8212; developers aren&#8217;t saying how high the skyscraper will top out, but observers say it will be above 2,300 feet (700 meters).<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/03\/31\/emirates.skyscraper.ap\/index.html?section=cnn_tech\">AP, 4\/4\/05<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;d forgotten, our own Freedom Tower was supposed to be the tallest. But it hasn&#8217;t been built yet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cnn.net\/cnn\/2003\/US\/Northeast\/12\/19\/wtc.plan\/story.new.design.2.ap.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><i>NEW YORK (CNN) &#8212; The Freedom Tower to be built at the site of the devastated World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan is still planned as the world&#8217;s tallest building, according to a revised model unveiled Friday by the architects collaborating on its design.<\/p>\n<p>The tower, to be a centerpiece of the rebuilding plan for the World Trade Center site, is to rise 1,776 feet &#8212; a nod to the year the United States declared its independence. The height was originally proposed a year ago by architect Daniel Libeskind, since designated the site&#8217;s master planner.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a broadcast antenna attached to the tower is to bring the structure&#8217;s total height above 2,000 feet.<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/Northeast\/12\/19\/wtc.plan\/\">CNN, 12\/20\/03<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now the Emiratis are getting into the game: An artist drawing of the Burj Dubai &#8212; developers aren&#8217;t saying how high the skyscraper will top out, but observers say it will be above 2,300 feet (700 meters). AP, 4\/4\/05 In case you&#8217;d forgotten, our own Freedom Tower was supposed to be the tallest. But it hasn&#8217;t been built yet. NEW YORK (CNN) &#8212; The Freedom Tower to be built at the site of the devastated World Trade Center in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-wtf","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-7s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}