{"id":18874,"date":"2017-01-05T17:35:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T22:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18874"},"modified":"2017-01-05T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T22:42:18","slug":"your-word-is-or%cb%88tha%c9%a1r%c9%99fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18874","title":{"rendered":"Your word is \/\u00f4r?TH\u00e4?r?f?\/"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For better than ten, perhaps fifteen years I was the pronouncer at our regional Scripps Howard Spelling Bee. I have mentioned spelling bees and my experiences with them <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=%22spelling+bee%22\"> in about a dozen previous posts<\/a> over the last ten years.<\/p>\n<p>The subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2017\/01\/05\/8671_spirit_mountain_news\">the last half<\/a> of John Ramos&#8217;s Reader Column this week concerns an unhappy experience his son suffered during the bee held at their school. His concerns ended up in my District email inbox last week and I sent Mr. Ramos a reply that attempted to put things in perspective and console him. From the conclusion of his column I gather I was not the only school board member to reply to his complaints. <\/p>\n<p>As for the title of this post &#8211; I was attempting to find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&#038;rlz=1C1NHXL_enUS718US719&#038;ion=1&#038;espv=2&#038;ie=UTF-8#q=orthography\">a synonym<\/a> for the world &#8220;spelling.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t really find one.  Neither would my headline space permit me to post the word I copied from the Internet, demonstrating its proper pronunciation.  It couldn&#8217;t recognize the symbols for getting the pronunciation right. Golly, I can do something better than my blog software. I love those upside down e&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For better than ten, perhaps fifteen years I was the pronouncer at our regional Scripps Howard Spelling Bee. I have mentioned spelling bees and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18874"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18879,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874\/revisions\/18879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}