{"id":220607,"date":"2016-02-11T06:06:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T20:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=220607"},"modified":"2016-02-11T06:06:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T20:06:28","slug":"liske-clark-tops-wps-spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/liske-clark-tops-wps-spelling-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Liske-Clark tops WPS spelling bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220609\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WPS-pix.jpg-copy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-220609\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WPS-pix.jpg-copy-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Whispering Palms Student Samantha Liske-Clark works with younger students as part of a mentoring reading program. (Contributed Photo)\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whispering Palms Student Samantha Liske-Clark works with younger students as part of a mentoring reading program. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Whispering Palms School is proud to announce their 2016 school-wide spelling bee champion: 7th grader, Samantha Liske-Clark. <\/p>\n<p>Sam, as her friends call her, will be traveling to Guam in early March for the Guam Regional Spelling Bee Competition. Once there, she will be competing against 1st-8th grade students from across the CNMI and Guam. <\/p>\n<p>Last year she was awarded 4th place overall in the event, out of around 54 participants. This year she hopes to take first place and then travel to Washington, D.C. for the national competition. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Sam said she \u201ctries to practice at least 40 minutes every day.\u201d She can often be seen at school studying diligently in her free time at lunch and recess. \u201cGuam was scary and a lot of pressure, but it was fun too,\u201d she commented. \u201cNext year will be my last year to compete.\u201d When asked what the hardest word was that she ever had to spell, Sam responded, \u201cThe hardest word I can remember practicing for was \u2018weissnichtwo.\u2019\u201d Everyone at Whispering Palms School is very proud of Sam and wishes  the best for her when she travels to Guam in hopes of becoming the Scripps Regional Spelling Bee Champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whispering Palms School is proud to announce their 2016 school-wide spelling bee champion: 7th grader,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,51,4145,4421],"class_list":["post-220607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-guam","tag-whispering-palms-school","tag-wps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}