{"id":29900,"date":"2012-05-10T07:52:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T11:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29900"},"modified":"2012-05-10T08:16:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T12:16:34","slug":"im-in-dubai-and-surrounded-by-women-dressed-like-ninjas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29900","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m in Dubai, and surrounded by women dressed like Ninjas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope I can fight my way through them if need be. \u00a0I don&#8217;t see any Katanas.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, I have $21 to my name (in cash) and no clue whether my cc&#8217;s will work from here. \u00a0I also have about 9 hours to blow before my flight. \u00a0I could take my ambien and sleep in a corner, but seriously dude, everyone here is incredibly scary. \u00a0I think the dude checking my passport was Lawrence of Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a fat American sitting near me, but dude is wearing a clip on tie, and I would rather fly back to Kandahar than talk to a fat guy with a clip on. \u00a0I met this cool fricken helicopter pilot on the plane here, and am supposed to meet him at the Irish pub inside the terminal. Only, they won&#8217;t let me in the terminal until 3 hours prior to my flight. \u00a0Now mind you, I was already INSIDE the damn terminal, but had to come out for my army bag.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I have an E-Ticket, and I have no clue what that means exactly. \u00a0I want one of those little kiosks and insert my cc and get my ticket, only there isn&#8217;t any. \u00a0(This post interrupted by 4pm prayer time.)<\/p>\n<p>So here I sit in Dubai, with a huge ass army green duffel bag, a computer bag with a pillow affixed to the top, wearing a Ranger Up shirt and Red Sox hat, barely any money, no actual physical ticket, and a MAC Book Pro battery that will die soon.<\/p>\n<p>If I can beat down these ninja&#8217;s, I still won&#8217;t have Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope I can fight my way through them if need be. \u00a0I don&#8217;t see any &hellip; <a title=\"I&#8217;m in Dubai, and surrounded by women dressed like Ninjas.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29900\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m in Dubai, and surrounded by women dressed like Ninjas.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-tso-embedded-in-astan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}