{"id":9159,"date":"2015-04-01T12:16:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T11:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/?p=8040"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:34:41","slug":"triathlon-in-the-middle-east-feels-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/01\/triathlon-in-the-middle-east-feels-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Triathlon in the Middle East feels different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Challenge Dubai, 2015<\/strong><br \/>After having spent several years in the Middle East in the 80ties I grab every chance to return back with curiosity\u00a0to see the changes that took place since. The Middle East changes fast.\u00a0When I was there, sports haven\u2019t been a topic at all. Today you feel an atmosphere of departure.<!--more--><br \/>To breathe the atmosphere of the triathlon in Dubai was very special and unexpected to me. The involved locals showed a passion that I miss in our countries. From an aesthetic point of view filming this race was simply thrilling. I loved\u00a0it. I hope I can infect you with my virus and you attend this race in one of the coming years. The hospitality of the people was unbeatable.<br \/> <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rwiLAGlw4aI\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PS: There was no BIEST athlete at starting line as\u00a0<a title=\"Vonsy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yvonnevanvlerken.eu\">Yvonne van Vlerken<\/a> was injured at that time, that\u2019s why I thought in the beginning: &#8220;What the heck am I going to shoot there\u201c. Things turned out to be very different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenge Dubai, 2015After having spent several years in the Middle East in the 80ties I grab every chance to return back with curiosity\u00a0to see the changes that took place since. The Middle East changes fast.\u00a0When I was there, sports haven\u2019t been a topic at all. Today you feel an atmosphere of departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2292],"tags":[370,524,85,27,1623,1672,1737,855,115,1987,86,2228,46,424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9760,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions\/9760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}