{"id":273530,"date":"2026-05-16T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273530\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:28:06","slug":"tampa-bay-middle-school-student-to-compete-in-national-spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273530\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay middle school student to compete in national spelling bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 16, 2026 &#8211; Tampa Bay area resident Park Allen, 14, will compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The event will be held May 26 &#8211; 28 in Washington D.C. Park, who is currently in eighth grade, attends East Lake Middle School &#8211; Academy of Engineering in Tarpon Springs. The first National Spelling Bee was held in 1925. To learn more about the event and Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/spellingbee.com\/meet-the-spellers?speller_number=55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit this link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 16, 2026 &#8211; Tampa Bay area resident Park Allen, 14, will compete in the Scripps National Spelling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-273530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273530","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=273530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}