{"id":6099,"date":"2006-02-18T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2006-02-18T07:30:42","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T12:30:42","slug":"a-3-peat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6099","title":{"rendered":"A 3-PEAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HEK Melanie Due won her county <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandforks.com\/mld\/grandforks\/news\/13902755.htm\">spelling bee<\/a> for the 3rd year running.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Melanie Due, three really is a lucky number.<\/p>\n<p>She won the Grand Forks County spelling bee for the third year in a row Friday, which means she&#8217;ll be making her third trip to compete in the North Dakota Spelling Bee.<\/p>\n<p>Due, who was the 2005 state champion, is the third sister in her family to win the Grand Forks County Spelling Bee, to be a state champion speller and to advance to the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>She has followed in the steps of her sisters, Karen Due, the 2000 state winner, and Hannah Due, the 2003 state winner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those damn homeschoolers and their unfair advantage.  Nice job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEK Melanie Due won her county spelling bee for the 3rd year running. For Melanie Due, three really is a lucky number. She won the Grand Forks County spelling bee for the third year in a row Friday, which means she&#8217;ll be making her third trip to compete in the North Dakota Spelling Bee. Due, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}