{"id":40726,"date":"2001-07-27T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-07-27T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/miss-universe-pageant-turned-down\/"},"modified":"2001-07-27T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-07-27T01:43:56","slug":"miss-universe-pageant-turned-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/07\/27\/miss-universe-pageant-turned-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Universe pageant turned down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DR government has turned down hosting the Miss Universe pageant in 2003. The event comes with a franchise fee of U$5 million, not including the actual cost of hosting the event. The government turned down the event after the Hotel &amp; Restaurant Association rejected it, saying the timing was not right and the industry had other priorities. The pageant was held here in 1977 when Gulf &amp; Western Corporation picked up the tab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DR government has turned down hosting the Miss Universe pageant in 2003. The event comes with a franchise fee of U$5 million, not including the actual cost of hosting the event. The government turned down the event after the Hotel &amp; Restaurant Association rejected it, saying the timing was not right and the industry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/07\/27\/miss-universe-pageant-turned-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}