{"id":3998,"date":"2015-03-09T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2015-03-09T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T16:44:31","slug":"syrian-boy-wins-million-dirham-prize-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/syrian-boy-wins-million-dirham-prize-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian boy wins million-dirham prize in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Saif.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3999\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Saif.jpg\" alt=\"Saif\" width=\"369\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Saif.jpg 369w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Saif-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a>A Syrian boy became an instant millionaire after winning a raffle draw in Dubai held as part of a shopping campaign, a local newspaper reported Sunday.<br \/>\nSaif won a cheese worth 1 million dirhams ($ 272,260.7) during a competition at The Dubai Mall, an iconic entertainment destination in the city.<br \/>\nThe 7-year-old boy is considered the youngest winner of this year\u2019s prize, according to Emirati newspaper The National. The million-dirham check was picked up by the boy\u2019s father at the mall.<br \/>\nThe competition was held in January as part of the annual Dubai Shopping Festival, where shopaholics can check out the best deals and enjoy the month-long festivities.<br \/>\nThe mall\u2019s lucky draw competition gives shoppers a chance to win 1 million dirhams in cash for every 300 dirhams spent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/syrian-boy-wins-million-dirham-prize-in-dubai\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Syrian boy became an instant millionaire after winning a raffle draw in Dubai held as part of a shopping campaign, a local newspaper reported Sunday. Saif won a cheese worth 1 million dirhams ($ 272,260.7) during a competition at The Dubai Mall, an iconic entertainment destination in the city. The 7-year-old boy is considered &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,25,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}