{"id":53231,"date":"2026-05-25T01:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T01:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-saudi-arabias-spending-spree-reached-the-end-of-the-line\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T01:28:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T01:28:56","slug":"how-saudi-arabias-spending-spree-reached-the-end-of-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-saudi-arabias-spending-spree-reached-the-end-of-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"How Saudi Arabia&#8217;s spending spree reached the end of the line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">&#8220;The thinking now is to basically get small wins, small successes here and there, instead of these mega projects,&#8221; says Abdullah. &#8220;Like, for example, the Red Sea island resort of Sindalah could be one small win that they can promote, which is basically a very traditional style of resort, which can still be presented as part of the vision, instead of the likes of The Line and The Cube. And so they can say, &#8216;these represent the basis of Neom, and we didn&#8217;t have to have the whole thing&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx21g0828reo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The thinking now is to basically get small wins, small successes here and there, instead of these mega projects,&#8221; says Abdullah. &#8220;Like, for example, the Red Sea island resort of Sindalah could be one small win that they can promote, which is basically a very traditional style of resort, which can still be presented as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[15260,3584,1276,3765,2052,7134],"class_list":["post-53231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-arabias","tag-line","tag-reached","tag-saudi","tag-spending","tag-spree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53233,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53231\/revisions\/53233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}