{"id":890,"date":"2023-07-18T18:49:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2023-07-18T18:49:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:49:49","slug":"miss-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"Miss Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of what used to be called \u201cbeauty pageants\u201d have been trying to remake themselves in the 21<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;century, and in case you hadn\u2019t heard, Miss Colorado may have achieved that\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Mega-Talented Miss Colorado\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:48)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9a63047f-0cd6-4476-82bd-1ade6116a46b\" href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230718-Mega-Talented-Miss-Colorado.mp3\">230718-Mega-Talented-Miss-Colorado<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230718-Mega-Talented-Miss-Colorado.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9a63047f-0cd6-4476-82bd-1ade6116a46b\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The newest Miss Colorado, part of the Miss America organization, is 23-year-old Madison Marsh, an Arkansas native who was crowned at the end of May.&nbsp; She\u2019s far from the former stereotype of pageant contestants.&nbsp; 23-year-old Madison is one of this spring\u2019s graduates of the Air Force Academy, a 2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;Lieutenant with a degree in physics.&nbsp; She becomes the first Air Force officer to win a Miss America program state title.&nbsp; She\u2019s the founder and President of the Whitney Marsh Foundation, created after her mom Whitney passed away due to pancreatic cancer 5 years ago.&nbsp; So far, the Foundation\u2019s raised more than a quarter million dollars for research on that particular cancer, and Madison\u2019s a graduate intern with the Harvard Medical School, working to enable artificial intelligence to help detect it.&nbsp; She\u2019s a national Truman Scholar, who this fall will use that scholarship at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School to begin work on her Master\u2019s in Public Policy.&nbsp; And this past weekend, a Colorado Springs dealership awarded her a new car to drive for the coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of what used to be called \u201cbeauty pageants\u201d have been trying to remake themselves in the 21st&nbsp;century, and in case you hadn\u2019t heard, Miss Colorado may have achieved that\u2026 (Mega-Talented Miss Colorado\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:48) The newest Miss Colorado, part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}