{"id":9227,"date":"2024-02-15T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T14:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=9227"},"modified":"2024-02-17T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T14:46:04","slug":"spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=9227","title":{"rendered":"Spelling Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This girl signed up for the National Scripts Spelling Bee at Thoreau, an in-person Spelling Bee none-the-less.\u00a0\u00a0For weeks she studied a list of over 300 words.\u00a0\u00a0Her commitment to studying and bravery to get on that stage were admirable.\u00a0\u00a0I couldn\u2019t be prouder of her effort and her willingness to take a risk.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She spelled \u201cVultures\u201d correct to move on to the second round.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cInnards\u201d tripped her up in round two.\u00a0\u00a0But, again this time it was pure recognition of the effort, the results didn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t wait to see this girl up on stage again next year in the 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0grade Spelling Bee!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5111-1-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5111-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5111-1-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5111-1-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5113.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5113.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9228\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This girl signed up for the National Scripts Spelling Bee at Thoreau, an in-person Spelling Bee none-the-less.\u00a0\u00a0For weeks she studied a list of over 300 words.\u00a0\u00a0Her commitment to studying and bravery to get on that stage were admirable.\u00a0\u00a0I couldn\u2019t be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=9227\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9231,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227\/revisions\/9231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}