{"id":9002,"date":"2011-06-07T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T06:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=9002"},"modified":"2011-06-07T01:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T06:52:00","slug":"eley-named-2011-state-sunburst-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/06\/07\/eley-named-2011-state-sunburst-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Eley named 2011 state Sunburst queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS \u2013 Middle Point native Ayla Eley was crowned state Sunburst queen during a pageant held recently in Columbus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9003\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9003 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sunburst-Queen-Ayla-Eley-6-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"386\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Middle Point resident Ayla Eley with some of the hardware she won for being named Ohio Sunburst queen. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eley, 19, qualified for the state finals by winning a preliminary pageant in Dublin. She competed in the division for 18-27 year olds, and received first-place finishes in swimwear, evening gown and campus-work attire modeling. She also won the talent competition, singing Taylor Swift\u2019s latest song: \u201cMean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eley also received the top award for best portfolio, composite, and was awarded the title of \u201cmost photogenic\u201d during the pageant. She also won side awards for \u201cbest evening gown,\u201d \u201cbest hair,\u201d \u201cbest personality\u201d and being top \u201csuper model\u201d of the pageant.<\/p>\n<p>Eley is now qualified to compete in the Sunburst International competition, which is to be held in Atlanta, Ga., in July.<\/p>\n<p>For her efforts, she received a total of nine trophies, 12 tiaras, four medals and a U.S. savings bond.<\/p>\n<p>Van-Del Drive-In and Boyd Theatres sponsored her in the pageant.<\/p>\n<p>Eley is a freshman at Columbus State University and plans to transfer to The Columbus College of Art &amp; Design in the fall to pursue a degree in commercial photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS \u2013 Middle Point native Ayla Eley was crowned state Sunburst queen during a pageant held recently in Columbus. Eley, 19, qualified for the state finals by winning a preliminary pageant in Dublin. She competed in the division for 18-27 year olds, and received first-place finishes in swimwear, evening gown and campus-work attire modeling. She [&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-9002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 08:09:05","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\/9002","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=9002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}