{"id":195310,"date":"2026-03-17T19:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195310\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:28:07","slug":"gotha-middle-student-advances-to-regional-spelling-bee-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195310\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotha Middle student advances to regional spelling bee competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h921301-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Eighth-grader Leo Terrell from Gotha Middle is advancing to the Orange County Regional Spelling Bee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h921301-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">The event will take place at 9 a.m. Friday, March 27 at the Ronald Blocker Educational Leadership Center at 445 W. Amelia St., Orlando.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h921301-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;This is an incredible accomplishment and we are so proud of the hard work, dedication and perseverance Leo has shown to get to this point,&#8221; Gotha Middle School posted on Facebook. &#8220;Competing at this level takes focus, determination and a whole lot of studying &#8212; and Leo has truly earned this moment.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h921301-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The top three spellers at the regional spelling pee will represent Orange County on a national level in Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h921301-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;Leo, our entire Gotha family is cheering you on,&#8221; Gotha Middle continued. &#8220;We are so proud of you and can&#8217;t wait to see you shine on the regional stage.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighth-grader Leo Terrell from Gotha Middle is advancing to the Orange County Regional Spelling Bee.\u00a0 The event will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-195310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}