{"id":967,"date":"2026-06-01T18:44:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/matt-bee-champion\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:44:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:44:51","slug":"matt-bee-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/matt-bee-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Bee Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spellingbee.com\/\">Spelling bees<\/a> have gotten a lot more intense. How many of these do you know?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">torrone, enthymeme, iguape, Denebola, fais-dodo, cywyddau, pohutukawa, monadnock, \u00e9meute, nannofossil, tongkang, Natchitoches, flaith, semele, rusell, sawder, campernelle, Nicol, Zamenis, Tharparkar, tlachtli, madoqua, retiarius, balintawak, tessaraconter, taurokathapsia, rapakivi, uayeb, paroemia, melengket, teraglin, homelyn, chikungunya, bromocriptine (cashaw)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yFkrOpDja1o\">Check out the first 90 seconds of this video where Shrey Parikh gets 32 out of 34 correct to become the 2026 champion<\/a>. That speed round is called a \u201cspell-off,\u201d and so many of the kids are getting all the words right that they use it to break ties. Lots of words to press. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd20\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f920.png\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spelling bees have gotten a lot more intense. How many of these do you know? torrone, enthymeme, iguape, Denebola, fais-dodo, cywyddau, pohutukawa, monadnock, \u00e9meute, nannofossil, tongkang, Natchitoches, flaith, semele, rusell, sawder, campernelle, Nicol, Zamenis, Tharparkar, tlachtli, madoqua, retiarius, balintawak, tessaraconter, taurokathapsia, rapakivi, uayeb, paroemia, melengket, teraglin, homelyn, chikungunya, bromocriptine (cashaw) Check out the first 90 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}