{"id":553848,"date":"2016-11-03T11:45:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=553848"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T16:45:01","slug":"tyler-student-wins-state-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=553848","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Student Wins State Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/11\/Triston-Ferguson.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/11\/Triston-Ferguson-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"triston-ferguson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-553852\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; A John Tyler High School senior has won a state-wide oratorical contest. Triston Ferguson  the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) Joseph S. Rumbaugh Historical Oration Contest held in Austin. Triston received a $2,500 scholarship and a gold medal at the state competition. He now advances to compete in the National SAR Oration Contest to be held July 10-11 in Boston, Massachusetts.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>National awards will include a $5,000 scholarship to the first place winner, a $3,000 to second Place and $2,000 to the third place finisher. Fourth through sixth place runners-up are awarded $400 and all other national contestants are awarded $200.<\/p>\n<p>The contest  is a competition where students are required to write and memorize a speech that took an event, person, or document from the American Revolution and compared it to something in today&#8217;s society. Each student&#8217;s five- to six-minute speech (and accompanying manuscript) is judged based upon composition, delivery, significance, and historical accuracy and relevance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; A John Tyler High School senior has won a state-wide oratorical contest. Triston Ferguson the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) Joseph S. Rumbaugh Historical Oration Contest held in Austin. Triston received a $2,500 scholarship and a gold medal at the state competition. He now advances to compete in the National SAR Oration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=553848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler Student Wins State Title<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":553852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 10:27:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553853,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553848\/revisions\/553853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/553852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}