{"id":82629,"date":"2025-12-21T20:44:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82629"},"modified":"2025-12-21T20:44:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:44:52","slug":"saudi-arabia-quietly-expands-access-to-its-only-alcohol-store-for-non-muslim-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/21\/saudi-arabia-quietly-expands-access-to-its-only-alcohol-store-for-non-muslim-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia quietly expands access to its only alcohol store for non-Muslim residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1SKWyO.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=535&amp;y=383&amp;s=149&amp;d=49\" alt=\"Saudi Arabia Alcohol\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has quietly expanded access to its only store that sells alcohol, allowing wealthy foreign residents to buy booze in the latest step in the once-ultraconservative kingdom\u2019s experiment in liberalization.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/travel\/news\/saudi-arabia-quietly-expands-access-to-its-only-alcohol-store-for-non-muslim-residents\/ar-AA1SKPkU?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6947b0941804427bb8f1875edcc1d97d&amp;ei=27\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Saudi Arabia has quietly expanded access to its only store that sells alcohol, allowing wealthy foreign residents to buy booze in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Saudi-Arabia.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82630,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82629\/revisions\/82630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}