{"id":11427,"date":"2017-11-28T11:53:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T11:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=11427"},"modified":"2017-11-28T11:53:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T11:53:59","slug":"south-african-is-miss-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/south-african-is-miss-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"South African is Miss Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas,<br \/>\nSouth Africa\u2019s Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters was today crowned Miss Universe for 2017. India\u2019s Shraddha Shashidhar could not make a mark at the world\u2019s biggest beauty pageant, failing to make it even to the top 16.<\/p>\n<p>The country was hoping for a double win with Manushi Chhillar bagging the Miss World 2017 crown on November 18. Nel-Peters, 22, was presented the crown by her predecessor Iris Mittenaere of France. Colombia\u2019s Laura Gonzalez and Jamaica\u2019s Davina Bennett were announced as first runner-up and second runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>In the competition\u2019s Q&amp;A section, Nel-Peters was asked, \u201cWhat quality in yourself are you most proud of and how will you apply that quality to your time as Miss Universe?\u201d She responded: \u201cAs Miss Universe, you have to be confident in who you are as an individual. And Miss Universe is a woman who has to overcome many fears and by that she is able to help other women to overcome fears.\u201d Miss Venezuela and Miss Thailand also made it to top five at the pageant. The event, held in Las Vegas, was hosted by comedian Steve Harvey. A total of 92 contestants participated in the pageant.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas, South Africa\u2019s Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters was today crowned Miss Universe for 2017. India\u2019s Shraddha Shashidhar could not make a mark at the world\u2019s biggest beauty pageant, failing to make it even to the top 16. The country was hoping for a double win with Manushi Chhillar bagging the Miss World 2017 crown on November [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[315,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11429,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions\/11429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}