{"id":152453,"date":"2022-03-22T03:43:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T08:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=152453"},"modified":"2022-03-22T03:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T08:55:28","slug":"champion-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/03\/22\/champion-again\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. bound!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Lainey-Gardner-3-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152452\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview Middle School student Lainey Gardner emerged as the champion of the northwest regional spelling bee held at Owens Community College on Saturday. The seventh-grader, who also won the Van Wert County spelling bee in February, won an all-expenses paid trip to the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. Memorial Day weekend. The word that clinched it for Gardner: quotidian. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it means occurring every day or belonging to each day. Gardner is the first Crestview student to ever advance to national competition. <em>Photo courtesy of The Toledo Blade<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crestview Middle School student Lainey Gardner emerged as the champion of the northwest regional spelling bee held at Owens Community College on Saturday. The seventh-grader, who also won the Van Wert County spelling bee in February, won an all-expenses paid trip to the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. Memorial Day weekend. The word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 20:56:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}