{"id":20149,"date":"2023-02-16T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=20149"},"modified":"2023-03-21T10:59:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:59:50","slug":"wahiba-sands-in-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2023\/02\/16\/wahiba-sands-in-oman\/","title":{"rendered":"wahiba sands in oman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>some people like to take pictures like this at the beach. i prefer the desert in eastern oman. here we are experiencing a sunset, surrounded by martian landscapes, the wind erasing our footsteps as we walk around and take countless pictures, everything so vast and sovereign, humans small, and frail, and completely dependent on cosmic systems beyond their control\u2026 thinking of \u2018desert notebooks: a road map for the end of time\u2019 by ben ehrenreich:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026time took a different shape. <a><\/a>the desert enforces its own perspective. it shrinks you and puts eternity in the foreground. if you\u2019re open to it, and don\u2019t mind a diminished role in this drama, it insists, quietly, on the surging beauty of all things and non-things living and dead and not-formally-alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/330001482_505642421746014_5913489920098117993_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/330001482_505642421746014_5913489920098117993_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/330001482_505642421746014_5913489920098117993_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/330001482_505642421746014_5913489920098117993_n-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/330008210_582920617030794_2620399122028288234_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/330008210_582920617030794_2620399122028288234_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/330008210_582920617030794_2620399122028288234_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/330008210_582920617030794_2620399122028288234_n-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>some people like to take pictures like this at the beach. i prefer the desert in eastern oman. here we are experiencing a sunset, surrounded by martian landscapes, the wind erasing our footsteps as we walk around and take countless pictures, everything so vast and sovereign, humans small, and frail, and completely dependent on cosmic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2023\/02\/16\/wahiba-sands-in-oman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">wahiba sands in oman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20152,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20149\/revisions\/20152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}