{"id":7225,"date":"2018-01-13T17:41:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T17:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7225"},"modified":"2018-01-13T17:41:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T17:41:01","slug":"first-women-only-car-showroom-opens-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/first-women-only-car-showroom-opens-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"First women-only car showroom opens in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7226\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Car-Showroom-for-women.jpg\" alt=\"Car Showroom for women\" width=\"318\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Car-Showroom-for-women.jpg 318w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Car-Showroom-for-women-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/>A Saudi private company on Thursday opened the first car showroom for women only just five months before a decision allowing females to drive takes effect.<br \/>\nThe showroom was opened in a shopping mall in the western Red Sea port city of Jeddah to allow women the freedom to choose their own cars before they hit the road.<br \/>\nIn a historic decision late last year, King Salman gave Saudi women the right to drive, abolishing an almost three-decade ban based on religious reasons.<br \/>\nThe showroom offers a wide selection of vehicles from various makes and is staffed by women only.<br \/>\nIt also provides women with solutions to finance their purchase provided by leading banks and financial companies.<br \/>\nThe company plans to open more automobiles showrooms for women in the oil-rich kingdom.<\/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\/first-women-only-car-showroom-opens-in-saudi-arabia\/\" 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 Saudi private company on Thursday opened the first car showroom for women only just five months before a decision allowing females to drive takes effect. The showroom was opened in a shopping mall in the western Red Sea port city of Jeddah to allow women the freedom to choose their own cars before they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,27],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225"}],"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=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7227,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions\/7227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}