{"id":95785549,"date":"2010-09-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/australia-footing-the-bill-for-2-7-million-oprah-trip\/"},"modified":"2010-09-15T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T14:00:00","slug":"australia-footing-the-bill-for-2-7-million-oprah-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/australia-footing-the-bill-for-2-7-million-oprah-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Footing the Bill for $2.7 Million Oprah Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<strong>Oprah will host several shows at the famous Opera House <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOprah Winfrey&rsquo;s generous gift to 300 fans, an all inclusive trip to Australia, is actually being paid for by the State of New South Wales and Australia tourism department.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe two groups will be dishing out a total of $2.7 million for the trip, which celebrates Oprah&rsquo;s 25th and final season of the Oprah show. Despite disapproval from taxpayers, the state&rsquo;s politicians insist the trip will bring in a great amount of visitors to their shores.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTourism Minister Martin Ferguson states, &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s money well spent. This truly represents an amazing opportunity to showcase Australia, the warmth and hospitality of our people&hellip; Tourism Australia is finally getting it together. We as a nation will win as a result of this coup.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/entertainment\/tv\/2010\/09\/15\/15354276-wenn-story.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Toronto Sun <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Oprah will host several shows at the famous Opera House &nbsp; Oprah Winfrey&rsquo;s generous gift to 300 fans, an all inclusive trip to Australia, is actually being paid for by the State of New South Wales and Australia tourism department. &nbsp; The two groups will be dishing out a total of $2.7 million for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95785549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95785549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}