{"id":29984,"date":"2025-05-30T06:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-13-year-old-win-us-national-spelling-bee\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T06:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:28:27","slug":"watch-13-year-old-win-us-national-spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-13-year-old-win-us-national-spelling-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch 13-year-old win US National Spelling Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Faizan Zaki correctly spelled the French-derived word &#8220;\u00e9claircissement&#8221;, synonymous with enlightenment, to win the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee in the US. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The 13-year-old from Texas outlasted eight other finalists and defeated last year&#8217;s champion, Sarvadnya Kadam, to claim the title and take home the $52,500 prize. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Zaki lost to Kadam in 2024 during a tiebreaker rapid-elimination round.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c0r19l89ddno\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faizan Zaki correctly spelled the French-derived word &#8220;\u00e9claircissement&#8221;, synonymous with enlightenment, to win the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee in the US. The 13-year-old from Texas outlasted eight other finalists and defeated last year&#8217;s champion, Sarvadnya Kadam, to claim the title and take home the $52,500 prize. Zaki lost to Kadam in 2024 during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29986,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984\/revisions\/29986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}