{"id":16219,"date":"2013-10-13T01:10:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T01:10:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-15T21:10:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T21:10:57","slug":"Miss-World-2013-Megan-Young-returns-to-Philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=16219","title":{"rendered":"Miss World 2013 Megan Young returns to Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The threat of Typhoon Nari didn&#8217;t deter Filipinos from giving newly-crowned Miss World 2013 Megan Young a grand homecoming fit for a queen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, thousands of Filipino fans braved the rain and lined the streets of the central business district Makati just to get a glimpse of the country&#8217;s first ever Miss World.<\/p>\n<p>Young&#8217;s historic win means the Philippines now has won at least one crown each from the world&#8217;s four largest beauty pageants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She said:<\/strong> &#8220;It&#8217;s a great honor to represent the country itself. Before, I could only dream of being that girl who represents the Philippines. And while I was in Indonesia, I still couldn&#8217;t believe I had that name tag Philippines, that I had the sash that said Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being Miss World now, having my country behind me, representing my country, it&#8217;s a big thing. I have a huge responsibility on my shoulders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miss World tour of London and her first thoughts as the New Miss World!<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HvMkazxh1v0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a country where beauty contests are a serious affair, analysts said the triumph of the 23-year old actress is a morale booster to Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sociologist Dr Gerald Abergos said:<\/strong> &#8220;There are insurgencies in Zamboanga and we were faced with several floods and storms. This beauty pageant has uplifted the morale of the Filipino people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems that any event, may it be sporting event, musical event, especially beauty pageants, <strong>Filipinos in the country and all around the world, start to unite.<\/strong> That is how Filipinos support each other. That is what we call Filipino pride.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After Young&#8217;s impressive victory, <strong>Miss World organizers in Philippines said they are now working hard to have the country host the Miss World beauty pageant in the near future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Source www.channelnewsasia.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat of Typhoon Nari didn&#8217;t deter Filipinos from giving newly-crowned Miss World 2013 Megan Young a grand homecoming fit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"1","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The threat of Typhoon Nari didn&#8217;t deter Filipinos from giving newly-crowned Miss World 2013 Megan Young a grand homecoming fit","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":167,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":1,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}