{"id":923,"date":"2005-06-16T11:22:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T19:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/?p=923"},"modified":"2006-03-24T00:07:16","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T08:07:16","slug":"adults-can-spell-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/2005\/06\/16\/adults-can-spell-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Adults can spell, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog_images\/IMG_2490.jpg\" class=\"right\" alt=\"Spelling Bee trophy\" \/> Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/apus_story.asp?category=1110&#038;slug=Senior%20Spellers\">spelling bees for adults are on the rise<\/a>! I love this!<\/p>\n<p>As some of you know, I competed in spelling bees as a kid. I was the Seattle city spelling champion in 1979, and came in roughly 35th out of 180 in the regional bee that year. (I say roughly because I no longer remember the exact numbers.) 34 short of going to Washington for the national bee.  I still treasure the two red dictionaries I received as a prize the two years I went to regionals, and I have several trophies with bees on top (like the one pictured here, which is the Seattle Champion 1979 trophy). It was a blast, and I was really bummed that I had to &#8220;retire&#8221; after eighth grade. Watching the National Bee and the movie <cite>Spellbound<\/cite> in the last few years made me miss spelling bees a lot. So if there is an adult bee, I want to try it!  <\/p>\n<p>I am still too young for the Senior Spelling Bee described in the link, but maybe someone will make one for those of us in my age group. Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently spelling bees for adults are on the rise! I love this! As some of you know, I competed in spelling bees as a kid. I was the Seattle city spelling champion in 1979, and came in roughly 35th out of 180 in the regional bee that year. (I say roughly because I no longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3l1DW-eT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}