{"id":570,"date":"2010-09-02T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T17:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/?p=570"},"modified":"2010-09-27T17:25:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T17:25:46","slug":"winter-park-student-wins-shakespeare-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/winter-park-student-wins-shakespeare-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Park Student Wins Shakespeare Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter Park, Florida\u2019s very own Sophia Wise, who captivated audiences with her sonnet and monologue from Shakespeare, did the city proud at the English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition, winning 3<sup>rd<\/sup> prize. The Winter Park High School student was in New York on the 26<sup>th<\/sup> of April, where she competed with 58 other ESU winners from all over the country at Lincoln Center. Sophia previously won first place at the regional ESU competition in Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>For winning third place at the ESU National Shakespeare Competition, Sophia also received a $500 courtesy of the Shakespeare Society.<\/p>\n<p>Other winners of the national competition include ESU Dallas Branch regional winner John-Michael Lyles, who won 1<sup>st<\/sup> prize. For placing first, Lyles also received the union\u2019s Amanda Steele Scholarship, getting him a spot at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art\u2019s\u00a0Young Actors Summer School, a prestigious institution in London.<\/p>\n<p>The runner-up to the nationals is ESU St. Louis Branch regional winner Caroline Amos, who also received a gift prize of $1000.<\/p>\n<p>The ESU National Shakespeare Competition is a program designed to develop the speaking and critical-thinking skills of students from all over the country, helping them find an interest in literature as they discover for themselves the wonder and beauty of Shakespeare\u2019s masterpieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter Park, Florida\u2019s very own Sophia Wise, who captivated audiences with her sonnet and monologue from Shakespeare, did the city&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[240,242,912],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-park-fl-news","tag-english-speaking-union-national-shakespeare-competition","tag-sophia-wise","tag-winter-park-high-school"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}