{"id":744,"date":"2023-05-10T10:47:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dccww.org\/?p=744"},"modified":"2023-05-10T10:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:47:55","slug":"winners-in-the-2023-junior-league-youth-poetry-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dccww.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/10\/winners-in-the-2023-junior-league-youth-poetry-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners in the 2023 Junior League Youth Poetry Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Junior League of Washington\u2019s 24rd Annual Youth Poetry Contest, eight of our Hart Middle School students won for eleven poems. Our writers swept the 6th grade prizes: 1st place to Kyrie Johnson, 2nd place Jayla Nelson (two of her poems tied each other), and 3rd place to Kyrie Johnson (his second poem). In 7th grade: 1st place to Aisha Hunter and 3rd place a tie between Gavin Wood and Aisha Hunter (her second poem). Another sweep in 8th grade: 1st place to Neo-Damien Chamblee, 2nd place a tie between Naeshaun Ford and Zaniyah Taylor, and 3rd place to Trus&#8217; Stevens. This is particularly impressive because the Junior League contest had 161 entries from more than a dozen schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Junior League of Washington\u2019s 24rd Annual Youth Poetry Contest, eight of our Hart Middle School students won for eleven poems. Our writers swept the 6th grade prizes: 1st place to Kyrie Johnson, 2nd place Jayla Nelson (two of her poems tied each other), and 3rd place to Kyrie Johnson (his second poem). In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dccww.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dccww.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dccww.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dccww.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dccww.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dccww.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/dccww.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dccww.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dccww.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dccww.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}