{"id":133,"date":"2010-07-20T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2010-07-20T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T05:05:00","slug":"spelling-bee-2nd-or-3rd-depending-on-how-you-look-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Spelling Bee: 2nd or 3rd, Depending On How You Look At It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. awning<br \/>2. zucchini<br \/>3. pisco<br \/>4. cromlech<br \/>5. dithyramb (spelled it wrong)<br \/>6. tauromachy<br \/>7. rhabdomancy<br \/>8. tsuga (i didn&#8217;t know it but I followed the other lady&#8217;s lead)<br \/>9. cosymmedian (when we unsuccessfully spelled the first 5 letters one at a time, i conceded)<\/p>\n<p>I stopped the madness by saying &#8220;I WILL TAKE THE DRINK TICKET INSTEAD OF THE GIFT CERTIFICATE&#8221; but the lady thought i was pretty cool and gave me the gift certificate afterwards and I gave her the drink ticket. So&#8230; we were 2nd and 3rd, whichever you&#8217;d like me to be this week.<\/p>\n<p>I also got a banana Tootsie Roll Pop from grandfather, which is weird. I bet it&#8217;s gross.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Ux-us03ZH3o\/TEUzEKgfILI\/AAAAAAAAASI\/Q33PPTXthtU\/s1600\/Photo+on+2010-07-19+at+22.08+%234.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Ux-us03ZH3o\/TEUzEKgfILI\/AAAAAAAAASI\/Q33PPTXthtU\/s400\/Photo+on+2010-07-19+at+22.08+%234.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495855066908663986\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. awning2. zucchini3. pisco4. cromlech5. dithyramb (spelled it wrong)6. tauromachy7. rhabdomancy8. tsuga (i didn&#8217;t know it but I followed the other lady&#8217;s lead)9. cosymmedian (when we unsuccessfully spelled the first 5 letters one at a time, i conceded) I stopped the madness by saying &#8220;I WILL TAKE THE DRINK TICKET INSTEAD OF THE GIFT CERTIFICATE&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,169,161,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2nd-place","category-3rd-place","category-spelling","category-spelling-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}