{"id":2040,"date":"2011-01-21T09:35:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2011-01-21T09:35:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T13:35:35","slug":"guy-asks-for-1-million-dollars-in-a-youtube-video-and-gets-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/21\/guy-asks-for-1-million-dollars-in-a-youtube-video-and-gets-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Asks For $1 Million Dollars In a YouTube Video And Gets It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is going to start a new trend. \u00a0<strong>Craig Rowin<\/strong>, a New York based comic, put a video on YouTube asking for any random millionaire to give him one million dollars. \u00a0He wasn&#8217;t going to do anything high and mighty with the money, he just wanted someone to give him a million bucks. \u00a0And allegedly, someone did.<\/p>\n<p>His millionaire benefactor hasn&#8217;t been revealed&#8230;he has only produced a notarized letter from the millionaire&#8217;s attorney. \u00a0And he is scheduled to receive his million dollar check on February 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>The mainstream media has picked up the story, so in a short time we&#8217;ll get to see if the story is for real (and what the millionaire benefactors angle is)&#8230;if it&#8217;s a viral campaign&#8230;or both. \u00a0In the meantime, below is a look at the video Craig Rowin posted. \u00a0Expect a flood of copycats to soon follow.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=46Wqp1r_F0I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is going to start a new trend. \u00a0Craig Rowin, a New York based comic, put a video on YouTube asking for any random millionaire to give him one million dollars. \u00a0He wasn&#8217;t going to do anything high and mighty with the money, he just wanted someone to give him a million bucks. \u00a0And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[769],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}