{"id":338771,"date":"2026-09-05T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338771\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:06:09","slug":"staten-island-deli-owner-rewards-students-for-good-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338771\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island deli owner rewards students for good grades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">Staten Island deli owner Wail \u2018Wally\u2019 Alselwi shares how his \u2018Grades for Grabs\u2019 program rewards students with cash and snacks for strong report cards and discusses his goal of expanding the movement nationwide<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">Staten Island deli owner Wail &#8216;Wally&#8217; Alselwi joins &#8216;Fox &amp; Friends Weekend&#8217; to discuss his viral initiative of rewarding local students for getting good grades. Alselwi explains how his TikTok videos showing kids presenting report cards for free snacks and cash prizes gained millions of views. He shares his motivation to support the community&#8217;s youth and encourage academic success nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staten Island deli owner Wail \u2018Wally\u2019 Alselwi shares how his \u2018Grades for Grabs\u2019 program rewards students with cash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[79731,3870,9,24,79730,63,134,136,135,1115],"class_list":["post-338771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-breaking-news-videos","tag-fox-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-videos","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}