{"id":41375,"date":"2011-06-02T22:32:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T06:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2011-06-02T22:32:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T06:32:52","slug":"congrats-sukanya-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/02\/congrats-sukanya-roy\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats Sukanya Roy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/AP4f28f382481148a49b8cc28388d1b488.html\">Pa. girl aces &#8216;cymotrichous&#8217; to win Spelling Bee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sukanya&#8217;s winning word was &#8220;cymotrichous,&#8221; which relates to wavy hair. She likes hiking, rock climbing and ice skating, wants to travel and perhaps pursue a career in international relations. She is the fourth consecutive Indian-American to win the bee and the ninth in the last 13 years, a run that began when Nupur Lala captured the crown in 1999 and was later featured in the documentary &#8220;Spellbound<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth there were two Bengalis (including the winner) amongst the finalists. I know people rag on these bee winners for being memorization-nerds. First, these aren&#8217;t narrow kids (some of them are math-nerds and geography-nerds too!). Second, you <i>wish<\/i> your kids would turn out this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pa. girl aces &#8216;cymotrichous&#8217; to win Spelling Bee: Sukanya&#8217;s winning word was &#8220;cymotrichous,&#8221; which relates to wavy hair. She likes hiking, rock climbing and ice skating, wants to travel and perhaps pursue a career in international relations. She is the fourth consecutive Indian-American to win the bee and the ninth in the last 13 years, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,1411],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity","category-scripps-national-spelling-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41751,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41375\/revisions\/41751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}