{"id":12799,"date":"2013-05-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/05\/31\/indian-american-kids-1-2-3-in-us-national-spelling-bee-again\/"},"modified":"2013-05-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T12:00:00","slug":"indian-american-kids-1-2-3-in-us-national-spelling-bee-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/05\/31\/indian-american-kids-1-2-3-in-us-national-spelling-bee-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian-American Kids 1-2-3 in US National Spelling Bee&#8211;Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/entertainment\/celebrities\/209539051.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OXON HILL, MARYLAND, May 30, 2013 (Star Tribune): Arvind Mahankali has conquered his nemesis, the German language, to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. <\/p>\n<p>The 13-year-old from Bayside Hills, N.Y., correctly spelled knaidel, a small mass of leavened dough, to win the 86th version of the competition. The bee tested brain power, composure and, for the first time, knowledge of vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>Arvind will take home $30,000 in cash and prizes along with a huge, cup-shaped trophy.<\/p>\n<p>He finished third in 2011 and 2012, eliminated both times on German-derived words. This year, he got two German words in the finals and nailed them both, including the winning word.<\/p>\n<p>The eleven finalists advanced from a field of 281 contenders based on a combination of a performance onstage and their performance on a computerized spelling and vocabulary test. <\/p>\n<p>Runnerup was 13-year-old Pranav Shivashankar of Olathe, Kan., who stumbled and was eliminated on the word &#8220;cyanophycean,&#8221; a blue-green alga.<\/p>\n<p>(For a complete list of winners: http:\/\/public.spellingbee.com\/public\/results\/2013\/finishers\/html. Eight Indian-American kids were in the top 11 finalists.)<\/p>\n<p>Last year Indian-American kids also placed 1-2-3 in the bee: http:\/\/public.spellingbee.com\/public\/results\/2012\/finishers\/html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source OXON HILL, MARYLAND, May 30, 2013 (Star Tribune): Arvind Mahankali has conquered his nemesis, the German language, to win,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}