{"id":3363,"date":"2008-09-23T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2008-09-23T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:30:40","slug":"dr-allen-is-smarter-than-a-5th-grader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Allen Is Smarter Than A 5th Grader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> dentist <strong>Richard Allen<\/strong>, DDS  of <strong>Avia Dental Care<\/strong> just walked away with $175,000 from Fox&#8217;s hit TV show&#8221;Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader,&#8221; on September 19, 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Allen was assisted in victory by a class of 5th graders and five colleagues from his office, including Carlsbad residents <strong>Diana Lain<\/strong>, <strong>Susan Milch<\/strong>, and <strong>Jordan Davison<\/strong> as well as <strong>Amanda Phillips<\/strong> and <strong>Dorothy Davis<\/strong> from Oceanside. He opted to take the money and end the competition after being stumped on a question about the first names of early explorers Lewis and Clark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is he going to do with the money? &#8220;I will probably donate it to my favorite cause, the education of my two college-age sons,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan dentist Richard Allen, DDS of Avia Dental Care just walked away with $175,000 from Fox&#8217;s hit TV show&#8221;Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader,&#8221; on September 19, 2008. Dr. Allen was assisted in victory by a class of 5th graders and five colleagues from his office, including Carlsbad residents Diana Lain, Susan Milch, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}