{"id":250710,"date":"2026-06-01T11:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250710\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:32:12","slug":"jersey-city-seventh-grader-takes-second-in-national-spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250710\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey City Seventh Grader Takes Second in National Spelling Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/player-standard.jpg\" alt=\"Everlit Audio Player\" style=\"width: 100%;display: block\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Subscribe today to listen to this content<br \/>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/subscribe\/\" class=\"everlit-paywall-btn\" style=\"display: inline-block;padding: 6px 14px;border-radius: 50px;text-decoration: none;font-size: 11px;font-weight: 500;white-space: nowrap;flex-shrink: 0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        Get Access<br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ishaan Gupta, a seventh grader at Frank R. Conwell Middle School (M.S. 4), became the runner-up in the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Get two free articles a month!<\/p>\n<p class=\"newspack-registration__description\">Get the the news you won\u2019t find anywhere else! Enter your email below for two free articles a month.<\/p>\n<p>For unlimited access to our unmatched content, <a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To receive our email newsletters, <a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/jersey-city-times-newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SIGN UP here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any issues, please email info@jcitytimes.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/sarah-komar\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/14f4422658c64f27072be51cab3869dd9b3718c4d3e9b5a15e2e611909884c94.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSarah Komar is a Jersey City Times staff reporter who primarily covers K-12 and higher education. You can reach her at sarah.komar@jcitytimes.com or 347-644-8528 (call or text). Follow her on X @SarahEKomar,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/sarah-komar\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Sarah Komar\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe today to listen to this content Get Access Ishaan Gupta, a seventh grader at Frank R. Conwell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17424,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-250710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-jersey-city-education","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}