{"id":51231,"date":"2017-03-15T19:22:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T13:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=51231"},"modified":"2017-03-15T19:22:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T13:52:44","slug":"five-year-old-spells-sanskrit-word-correctly-become-youngest-spelling-bee-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=51231","title":{"rendered":"Five-year-old spells Sanskrit word correctly to become youngest spelling bee champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spelling words is really tough and while most people can\u2019t spelling bee competitors are of a different level even though they are children. It is also usually known that older children in the competition win it because they know tougher words to spell unless it is a five-year-old American girl.<br \/>\nAccording to a media report, Edith Fuller beat everybody at the American Spelling Bee competition when she surprisingly spelled a Sanskrit word correctly. The competition which is known to produce Indian winners every year saw Edith become the first winner in a long time. It was even more shocking because she could spell a Sanskrit word correctly even though she didn\u2019t have a background or any training in the language.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_wrapper_div\"><\/div>\n<p>The five-year-old girl from Oklahoma spelled the word <em>Jnana<\/em> which is part of the English dictionary. The word which means knowledge was spelled correctly as soon as Edith came to know it was of Sanskrit origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spelling words is really tough and while most people can\u2019t spelling bee competitors are of a different level even though they are children. It is also usually known that older children in the competition win it because they know tougher words to spell unless it is a five-year-old American girl. According to a media report, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}