{"id":266,"date":"2026-03-08T22:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:51:23","slug":"spellbound-success-deming-students-shine-at-district-spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/spellbound-success-deming-students-shine-at-district-spelling-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Spellbound Success: Deming Students Shine at District Spelling Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"314\" src=\"http:\/\/demingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Spelling-Bee-Contestants-030626-1024x314.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-267 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Spelling-Bee-Contestants-030626-1024x314.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/demingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Spelling-Bee-Contestants-030626-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/demingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Spelling-Bee-Contestants-030626-768x236.jpg 768w, https:\/\/demingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Spelling-Bee-Contestants-030626-465x143.jpg 465w, https:\/\/demingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Spelling-Bee-Contestants-030626-695x213.jpg 695w, https:\/\/demingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Spelling-Bee-Contestants-030626.jpg 1196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">DEMING &#8211; Two local students are being recognized for their spelling skills after competing in the District Spelling Bee.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Maximus Bollier-Quarrell, an eighth grader at Red Mountain Middle School, earned first place in the competition. Finishing in second place was Uriel Contreras, a sixth grader at Deming Intermediate School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">School officials say the event highlighted the hard work and academic dedication of students across the district. Congratulations to both Maximus Bollier-Quarrell and Uriel Contreras for their outstanding achievements in this year\u2019s District Spelling Bee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEMING &#8211; Two local students are being recognized for their spelling skills after competing in the District Spelling Bee. Maximus Bollier-Quarrell, an eighth grader at Red Mountain Middle School, earned first place in the competition. Finishing in second place was Uriel Contreras, a sixth grader at Deming Intermediate School. School<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/spellbound-success-deming-students-shine-at-district-spelling-bee\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-john-k","post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demingnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}