{"id":41365,"date":"2001-10-17T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-10-17T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/world-hurdling-champ-gets-lucrative-contract\/"},"modified":"2001-10-17T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-10-17T01:43:56","slug":"world-hurdling-champ-gets-lucrative-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/10\/17\/world-hurdling-champ-gets-lucrative-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"World hurdling champ gets lucrative contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World champion hurdler Felix S&aacute;nchez is proving that baseball isn&#146;t the only way for Dominican athletes to get rich. He recently signed a deal with Nike shoes worth US$250,000 a year. S&aacute;nchez was crowned the king of the 400-meter hurdles in August at the World Athletic Games in Edmonton. In his first season, he won ten titles which have earned him in the neighborhood of US$200,000 not including the Nike deal. S&aacute;nchez is currently visiting the DR and has been invited to throw the first pitch at the La Romana\/San Pedro de Macoris game this Friday as the winter baseball season opens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World champion hurdler Felix S&aacute;nchez is proving that baseball isn&#146;t the only way for Dominican athletes to get rich. He recently signed a deal with Nike shoes worth US$250,000 a year. S&aacute;nchez was crowned the king of the 400-meter hurdles in August at the World Athletic Games in Edmonton. In his first season, he won &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/10\/17\/world-hurdling-champ-gets-lucrative-contract\/\" 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\/41365"}],"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=41365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}