{"id":61048,"date":"2025-11-26T03:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61048\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T03:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:23:06","slug":"city-encourages-submissions-to-mlk-essay-oratorial-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61048\/","title":{"rendered":"City encourages submissions to MLK essay, oratorial contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 25, 2025 &#8211; The City of St. Petersburg Parks and Recreation Department&#8217;s Enoch Davis Center, in collaboration with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Organization and the Pinellas County Pan-Hellenic Council, is encouraging local youth to explore and highlight the civil rights icon&#8217;s legacy. The 36th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Essay &amp; Oratorical Contest is now accepting submissions through Dec. 14. Finalists will compete for a $500 scholarship. For more information, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stpeteparksrec.org\/MLKEssayContest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website here.\u00a0<\/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":"November 25, 2025 &#8211; The City of St. Petersburg Parks and Recreation Department&#8217;s Enoch Davis Center, in collaboration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-61048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61048","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=61048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}