{"id":52803,"date":"2022-08-26T12:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/uncategorized\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T10:15:16","slug":"watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: The Driest Place In Saudi Becomes Home To A River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Rub&#8217; al-Khali desert is one of the driest places in the world. The recent torrential rains that engulfed the country did not spare the Rub&#8217; al-Khali desert\u2013that\u2019s the largest sand desert in the world, by the way.<\/p>\n<h2>The sporadic rains gave the place a running river for a while that looked absolutely amazing.<\/h2>\n<p>Talk about global warming causing weird things. David Attenborough you seeing this?<\/p>\n<h2>The post received a tonne of upvotes on Reddit.<\/h2>\n<p><iframe id=\"reddit-embed\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redditmedia.com\/r\/interestingasfuck\/comments\/wt4wmt\/rub_alkhali_one_of_the_driest_region_in_the_world\/?ref_source=embed&amp;ref=share&amp;embed=true\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Rub&#8217; al-Khali desert is one of the driest places in the world. The recent torrential rains that engulfed the country did not spare the Rub&#8217; al-Khali desert\u2013that\u2019s the largest sand desert in the world, by the way. The sporadic rains gave the place a running river for a while that looked absolutely amazing. Talk about &hellip; ","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[5098],"acf":{"disable_lovin_hearts":false,"embed_code":"","enable_reveal_feature":false,"episode_introduction":"","episode_number":"","featured_for_app":false,"featured_image":{"ID":52804,"id":52804,"title":"","filename":"copy_of_lovin_saudi_featured_image_template__1_-1.png","filesize":385031,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2022\/08\/26141503\/copy_of_lovin_saudi_featured_image_template__1_-1.png","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/attachment\/52804\/","alt":"","author":"402","description":"","caption":"","name":"52804","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":52803,"date":"2022-08-26 10:15:02","modified":"2022-08-26 10:15:02","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":800,"height":400,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2022\/08\/26141503\/copy_of_lovin_saudi_featured_image_template__1_-1-small.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2022\/08\/26141503\/copy_of_lovin_saudi_featured_image_template__1_-1-medium.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2022\/08\/26141503\/copy_of_lovin_saudi_featured_image_template__1_-1-768x384.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2022\/08\/26141503\/copy_of_lovin_saudi_featured_image_template__1_-1-large.png","large-width":800,"large-height":400,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2022\/08\/26141503\/copy_of_lovin_saudi_featured_image_template__1_-1.png","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":400,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2022\/08\/26141503\/copy_of_lovin_saudi_featured_image_template__1_-1.png","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":400,"small":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2022\/08\/26141503\/copy_of_lovin_saudi_featured_image_template__1_-1-230x115.png","small-width":120,"small-height":60,"custom-size":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2022\/08\/26141503\/copy_of_lovin_saudi_featured_image_template__1_-1.png","custom-size-width":400,"custom-size-height":200}},"featured_image_caption":"","flexible_content":false,"hide_featured_image":false,"is_guest_user":false,"legacy_full_image":"","legacy_image":"","legacy_meta_tags":"","lovin_heart_title":"","lovin_video_link":false,"lovin_video_link_webm":false,"reveal_image":false,"show_sponsor":false,"sponsor_content":"","sponsor_facebook":"","sponsor_image":false,"sponsor_instagram":"","sponsor_name":"","sponsor_twitter":"","sponsor_website":"","summary":"","type_of_video":"Self Hosted","video_thumbnail":false},"image_feature":null,"author_name":"MohammedMirza","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.4 (Yoast SEO v22.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Watch: The Driest Place In Saudi Becomes Home To A River<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watch: The Driest Place In Saudi Becomes Home To A River\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The\u00a0Rub&#8217; al-Khali desert is one of the driest places in the world. The recent torrential rains that engulfed the country did not spare the Rub&#8217; al-Khali desert\u2013that\u2019s the largest sand desert in the world, by the way. The sporadic rains gave the place a running river for a while that looked absolutely amazing. Talk about &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lovin Jeddah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lovinjeddah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-26T08:03:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-26T10:15:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MohammedMirza\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@lovinjeddah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@lovinjeddah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"MohammedMirza\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"MohammedMirza\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/de44f39c6dc8c096652beffe3ee23e86\"},\"headline\":\"Watch: The Driest Place In Saudi Becomes Home To A River\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-26T08:03:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-26T10:15:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/\"},\"wordCount\":88,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Rub AlKhali\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Latest\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/\",\"name\":\"Watch: The Driest Place In Saudi Becomes Home To A River\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-26T08:03:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-26T10:15:16+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Lovin Jeddah\",\"description\":\"Just another Lovin page\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Lovin Jeddah\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/06\/04160637\/Lovin-Jeddah-Thumbnail.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/06\/04160637\/Lovin-Jeddah-Thumbnail.png\",\"width\":197,\"height\":197,\"caption\":\"Lovin Jeddah\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lovinjeddah\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lovinjeddah\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/de44f39c6dc8c096652beffe3ee23e86\",\"name\":\"MohammedMirza\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/daae5ace69bd0229ac40610544a985a8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/daae5ace69bd0229ac40610544a985a8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"MohammedMirza\"},\"description\":\"Mohammed is an avid traveller who is constantly on the hunt for new and upcoming Saudi travel destinations. Having lived much of his life in Saudi, he knows most tourist sites in the country like the back of his hands. He's also a book lover at heart and is the author of a novel called \\\"Desert Promises\\\".\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/author\/mohammedmirza\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Watch: The Driest Place In Saudi Becomes Home To A River","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Watch: The Driest Place In Saudi Becomes Home To A River","og_description":"The\u00a0Rub&#8217; al-Khali desert is one of the driest places in the world. The recent torrential rains that engulfed the country did not spare the Rub&#8217; al-Khali desert\u2013that\u2019s the largest sand desert in the world, by the way. The sporadic rains gave the place a running river for a while that looked absolutely amazing. Talk about &hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/","og_site_name":"Lovin Jeddah","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lovinjeddah","article_published_time":"2022-08-26T08:03:59+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-08-26T10:15:16+00:00","author":"MohammedMirza","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@lovinjeddah","twitter_site":"@lovinjeddah","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"MohammedMirza","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/"},"author":{"name":"MohammedMirza","@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/de44f39c6dc8c096652beffe3ee23e86"},"headline":"Watch: The Driest Place In Saudi Becomes Home To A River","datePublished":"2022-08-26T08:03:59+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-26T10:15:16+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/"},"wordCount":88,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#organization"},"keywords":["Rub AlKhali"],"articleSection":["Latest"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/","url":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/","name":"Watch: The Driest Place In Saudi Becomes Home To A River","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-08-26T08:03:59+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-26T10:15:16+00:00","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/latest\/watch-the-driest-place-in-saudi-becomes-home-to-a-river\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/","name":"Lovin Jeddah","description":"Just another Lovin page","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#organization","name":"Lovin Jeddah","url":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/06\/04160637\/Lovin-Jeddah-Thumbnail.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/06\/04160637\/Lovin-Jeddah-Thumbnail.png","width":197,"height":197,"caption":"Lovin Jeddah"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lovinjeddah","https:\/\/twitter.com\/lovinjeddah"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/de44f39c6dc8c096652beffe3ee23e86","name":"MohammedMirza","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/daae5ace69bd0229ac40610544a985a8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/daae5ace69bd0229ac40610544a985a8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"MohammedMirza"},"description":"Mohammed is an avid traveller who is constantly on the hunt for new and upcoming Saudi travel destinations. Having lived much of his life in Saudi, he knows most tourist sites in the country like the back of his hands. He's also a book lover at heart and is the author of a novel called \"Desert Promises\".","url":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/author\/mohammedmirza\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}