{"id":116325,"date":"2017-09-06T04:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T08:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=116325"},"modified":"2017-09-06T04:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T08:22:47","slug":"97th-miss-america-competition-begins-in-atlantic-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/06\/97th-miss-america-competition-begins-in-atlantic-city\/","title":{"rendered":"97th Miss America competition begins in Atlantic City"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_116328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116328\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20638214_10155859954747573_8040537615161826724_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116328\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20638214_10155859954747573_8040537615161826724_n.jpg\" alt=\"The 97th Miss America competition will begin with the first of three nights of preliminary competition at Boardwalk Hall, the seaside arena where the next Miss America will be crowned in Sunday night's nationally televised finale. (Photo: Miss America Organization\/Facebook)\" width=\"850\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20638214_10155859954747573_8040537615161826724_n.jpg 850w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20638214_10155859954747573_8040537615161826724_n-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20638214_10155859954747573_8040537615161826724_n-768x284.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 97th Miss America competition will begin with the first of three nights of preliminary competition at Boardwalk Hall, the seaside arena where the next Miss America will be crowned in Sunday night&#8217;s nationally televised finale. (<a href=\"https:\/\/scontent.fmnl4-3.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/20638214_10155859954747573_8040537615161826724_n.jpg?oh=72b4937a63e281992a288c6f4fa1938b&amp;oe=5A250F7E\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/missamerica\/\">Miss America Organization\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. \u2014 Contestants from all 50 states and the District of Columbia will start facing off Wednesday night in Atlantic City, hoping to become the next Miss America.<\/p>\n<p>The 97th Miss America competition will begin with the first of three nights of preliminary competition at Boardwalk Hall, the seaside arena where the next Miss America will be crowned in Sunday night&#8217;s nationally televised finale.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the contestants will show off their state-specific footwear in the annual \u201cShow Us Your Shoes\u201d parade along the Boardwalk.<\/p>\n<p>The contestants are vying to succeed Savvy Shields, last year&#8217;s Miss Arkansas who won the title a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. \u2014 Contestants from all 50 states and the District of Columbia will start facing off Wednesday night &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":116328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[23033,23034],"class_list":["post-116325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-97th-miss-america","tag-atlantic-city","mauthors-wayne-parry","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}