{"id":1753,"date":"2009-03-17T22:16:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2009\/03\/17\/no_sad_goodbye"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:37:54","slug":"no_sad_goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/03\/17\/no_sad_goodbye","title":{"rendered":"No sad goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/7936048.stm\">BBC News: Sad goodbye to &#39;cosmopolitan&#39; Cairo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The BBC laments how the old nightclubs and belly-dancing joints of Cairo have either closed down or are shadows of their old selves.  The problem is that Cairo then was part of a quasi-colony &#8211; nominally a sovereign state but under British domination, including military occupation &#8211; and besides the dancing was the prostitution and the diseases that resulted from it.  It&#39;s really understandable that people don&#39;t want their country used as a seedy playground for foreign soldiers.  Places which have been &quot;cleaned up&quot; can be more boring than they were before, but usually the neighbours&#39; lives get a bit easier and quieter, and the women and children can go out after 4pm.  Cairo is actually still a very interesting city (although, as I&#39;ve said before, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/08\/26\/why_long-distance_day_trips_are_a_bad_thing\">don&#39;t recommend day trips<\/a>), and you can spend days exploring the old city and admiring (some of) the architecture, and then head for the Red Sea coast if you want some shame-free booze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Sad goodbye to &#39;cosmopolitan&#39; Cairo The BBC laments how the old nightclubs and belly-dancing joints of Cairo have either closed down or are shadows of their old selves. The problem is that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muslim_world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-sh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41681,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/41681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}