{"id":388,"date":"2021-02-09T20:50:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/books\/?p=388"},"modified":"2021-03-06T11:09:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T16:09:04","slug":"chapter-4-and-then-there-was-joy-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/books\/chapter-4-and-then-there-was-joy-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 4 – And Then There was Joy, in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Excerpt from Chapter 4 (Entire chapter is 21 pages)<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cIt was April 25, 1983 and I was having lunch at the race track. But it wasn\u2019t just any race track, it was the King Abdul Aziz race track in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and I was the guest of a Sheik and six of his high-ranking friends at the Riyadh Equestrian Club. As I sat there I was reminded of the song from the Broadway show Sweet Charity, \u201cIf they could see me now, that little gang of mine\u2026 they\u2019d never believe it.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

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(I was there researching a book on manpower, but I still was able to sit with royalty, attend an all-night engagement party and barter in a souk.)<\/p>\n

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