{"id":13138,"date":"2009-06-02T17:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/meet_the_scripps_spelling_bee_champ_focused_disciplined\/"},"modified":"2009-06-02T17:00:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T17:00:35","slug":"meet_the_scripps_spelling_bee_champ_focused_disciplined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13138","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Scripps Spelling Bee champ: Focused, disciplined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kavya Shivasankar doesn&#8217;t want a cell phone, and she doesn&#8217;t like the makeup applied for television appearances that began early Friday, the morning after she spelled &#8220;Laodicean&#8221; to win the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-year-old from Olathe, Kans., likes her violin, Indian dancing, swimming, biking, playing with her little sister Vanya and spelling, of course.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to really miss spelling this next year because it&#8217;s such a big part of my life,&#8221; Kavya said Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/node\/43497\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kavya Shivasankar doesn&#8217;t want a cell phone, and she doesn&#8217;t like the makeup applied for television appearances that began early Friday, the morning after she spelled &#8220;Laodicean&#8221; to win the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 13-year-old from Olathe, Kans.,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13138\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}