{"id":52751,"date":"2011-12-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/how-amelia-vega-first-got-her-chance-at-fame\/"},"modified":"2011-12-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T00:00:00","slug":"how-amelia-vega-first-got-her-chance-at-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/12\/27\/how-amelia-vega-first-got-her-chance-at-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"How Amelia Vega first got her chance at fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amelia Vega&#8217;s life changed forever when she won the Miss Universe contest in Panama in 2003. While the Dominican Republic had never won the contest, from day one she appeared a very strong contender, and a clear winner. Only 18 years old at the time, her natural charm, her smile, long legs and unexpected ease with words conquered all. Miss Universe organizer Donald Trump went on to name her as his favorite Miss Universe ever. In 2003, she also won the National Costume competition. <\/p>\n<p>The winner announcement<\/p>\n<p>www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5wTynvPeOWs&#038;feature=related<\/p>\n<p>The final question at Miss Universe<\/p>\n<p>www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=endscreen&#038;v=mxDIdfJRR5Y&#038;NR=1<\/p>\n<p>The evening competition <\/p>\n<p>www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E_JGotD0QkI&#038;feature=related<\/p>\n<p>Best costume <\/p>\n<p>www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=endscreen&#038;NR=1&#038;v=DPrib2ZialE<\/p>\n<p>Swim suit competition<\/p>\n<p>www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=endscreen&#038;v=Lnw6F-YMy5o&#038;NR=1 <\/p>\n<p>The opening walk<\/p>\n<p>www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bkp9a6-6NjY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amelia Vega&#8217;s life changed forever when she won the Miss Universe contest in Panama in 2003. While the Dominican Republic had never won the contest, from day one she appeared a very strong contender, and a clear winner. Only 18 years old at the time, her natural charm, her smile, long legs and unexpected ease &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/12\/27\/how-amelia-vega-first-got-her-chance-at-fame\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52751"}],"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=52751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}