{"id":1006,"date":"2020-05-04T15:55:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2020-05-04T15:55:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:55:18","slug":"spellpundit-online-spelling-bee-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/spellpundit-online-spelling-bee-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"SpellPundit Online Spelling Bee Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> When Scripps called off the National Spelling Bee in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, many spellers, especially students who are currently in 8th grade, were very disappointed to hear the news. SpellPundit decided to conduct our own online spelling bee in the same week of May to give these spellers a chance to compete. We have received an overwhelming response and many thank you notes from parents for planning the online competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/test.spellpundit.net\/spellshakti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SpellPundit-Shobha-and-Shourav-Scripps-News-Interview-1024x529.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SpellPundit-Shobha-and-Shourav-Scripps-News-Interview-1024x529.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SpellPundit-Shobha-and-Shourav-Scripps-News-Interview-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SpellPundit-Shobha-and-Shourav-Scripps-News-Interview-768x397.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SpellPundit-Shobha-and-Shourav-Scripps-News-Interview-522x270.jpg 522w, https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SpellPundit-Shobha-and-Shourav-Scripps-News-Interview.jpg 1116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SpellPundit online spelling bee competition has also been getting a lot of media attention from Associated Press, New York Times, NPR, CBS, Scripps News, etc. Here is the latest interview with SpellPundit\u2019s co-founders Shobha Dasari and Shourav Dasari! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TUl1FT8Ke_A&amp;feature=youtu.be\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TUl1FT8Ke_A&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Scripps called off the National Spelling Bee in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, many spellers, especially students who are currently in 8th grade, were very disappointed to hear the news. SpellPundit decided to conduct our own online spelling bee in the same week of May to give these spellers a chance to compete. We have received an overwhelming response and many thank you notes from parents for planning the online competition. The SpellPundit online spelling bee competition has&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/spellpundit-online-spelling-bee-competition\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1,7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-spelling","category-spellers","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spellpundit.com\/spellshakti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}