{"id":2905,"date":"2017-03-21T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2018-01-06T14:39:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T22:39:20","slug":"youngest-contestant-national-spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/youngest-contestant-national-spelling-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"5-Year-old Becomes Youngest Contestant in National Spelling Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little Edith Fuller\u00a0just made history by becoming the youngest contestant to ever qualify\u00a0for a national spelling bee.<\/p>\n<p>The homeschooler from Tulsa,\u00a0Oklahoma triumphed\u00a0over 50 other kids \u2013 some of them reportedly three times her age \u2013 in the regional Scripps National Spelling Bee\u00a0last Saturday. Now, Edith is on her way to Washington, D.C. for the nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster won after correctly spelling \u201cjnana\u201d; an obscure Sanskrit word for knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Other words included in her winning repertoire are \u201cvirgule\u201d, \u201csevruga\u201d, and \u201codori\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Edith\u2019s mother apparently\u00a0detected her daughter\u2019s knack for spelling at a dinner table when she correctly spelled \u201crestaurant\u201d \u2013 which, while it may not be too difficult for an adult \u2013 had never been taught to her before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fun to share her with everyone,\u201d Edith\u2019s mother, Annie Fuller, told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/homepagelatest\/bee-keeper%E2%80%94year-old-wins-regional-spelling-bee-trip\/article_dca62a05-8062-509f-a351-a2cda66e93d3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tulsa World<\/a>. \u201cI knew she\u2019d be a novelty, so I\u2019m proud she held her own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>WATCH<\/strong> the video below)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qFXAb-VRue4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title td-page-title\">McKinley Corbley:\u00a0Editor and writer for GNN; part-time circus junkie; and part-time English student in community college. Enjoys feminism, bad puns, travel, and copious amounts of stomach-ache inducing pasta.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image and article source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/5-year-old-becomes-youngest-contestant-national-spelling-bee\/<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Edith Fuller\u00a0just made history by becoming the youngest contestant to ever qualify\u00a0for a national spelling bee. The homeschooler from Tulsa,\u00a0Oklahoma triumphed\u00a0over 50 other kids \u2013 some of them reportedly three times her age \u2013 in the regional Scripps National Spelling Bee\u00a0last Saturday. Now, Edith is on her way to Washington, D.C. for the nationals.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[598,434,597],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-kid-champion","tag-kids","tag-spelling-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}