{"id":12041,"date":"2026-01-20T18:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/?p=12041"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:01:47","slug":"2025-zion-cup-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/2026\/01\/2025-zion-cup-results\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Zion Cup Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On January 19, we held our <strong>20th Zion Cup English Contest<\/strong>. For Year 1 students, we held a recitation contest while Years 2 and 3 students took part in a presentation contest. Preliminary contests were held in classes in December, and the final contest was held yesterday. Here are the results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Year 1 Recitations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1st place: Oto Miyata<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2nd place: Maho Watanabe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3rd place: Aika Wasai<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Year 2 &amp; 3 Presentations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1st: Karin Matsushima, Aoi Tanaka<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2nd: Saya Konishi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3rd: Nana Goto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-id=\"12056\" src=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Zion-25-1-600x450.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Zion-25-1-600x450.jpeg 600w, 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For Year 1 students, we held a recitation contest while Years 2 and 3 students took part in a presentation contest. Preliminary contests were held in classes in December, and the final contest was held yesterday. Here are the results: Year 1 Recitations 1st &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12061,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041\/revisions\/12061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}