{"id":2508,"date":"2016-06-06T17:32:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T16:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2016-06-06T17:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T16:32:05","slug":"uae-number-1-plate-sells-for-3-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/uae-number-1-plate-sells-for-3-4-million\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Number 1 Plate Sells For \u00a33.4 Million!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body\" data-test-id=\"article-review-body\">\n<p>A personalised registration plate bearing just the number one fetched AED18m (\u00a33.4m) at auction in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>The winning bidder was Emirati businessman Arif Ahmed al-Zarouni, who said \u201cMy ambition is always to be number one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His bid was 18 times the reserve price but is not the highest sum that has been paid for a number plate in the UAE. In 2008, the number one plate of the richest of the UAE\u2019s seven emirates, Abu Dhabi, sold for AED52.2m at auction. Zarouni\u2019s plate is for Sharjah, the third-richest emirate.<\/p>\n<p>The auction made a total of AED50m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A personalised registration plate bearing just the number one fetched AED18m (\u00a33.4m) at auction in the UAE. The winning bidder was Emirati businessman Arif Ahmed al-Zarouni, who said \u201cMy ambition is always to be number one.\u201d His bid was 18<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/uae-number-1-plate-sells-for-3-4-million\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-personalised-number-plates","category-prestige-number-plates","category-ultimate-cherished-numbers","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}