{"id":142515,"date":"2025-05-19T06:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/?p=142515"},"modified":"2025-05-19T14:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:01:03","slug":"steffl-is-princess-kay-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/steffl-is-princess-kay-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Steffl is Princess Kay finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/attachment-Princess-Kay-of-the-Milky-Way.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142516\" title=\"attachment-Princess-Kay-of-the-Milky-Way\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/attachment-Princess-Kay-of-the-Milky-Way.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/attachment-Princess-Kay-of-the-Milky-Way.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/attachment-Princess-Kay-of-the-Milky-Way-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/attachment-Princess-Kay-of-the-Milky-Way-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heidi Montag<\/strong>\u00a0of Sauk Rapids is representing Benton County,\u00a0<strong>April Klaphake<\/strong>\u00a0of Sauk Centre is representing Stearns County,\u00a0<strong>Paige Frenchick<\/strong>\u00a0of Manannah is representing Meeker County,\u00a0<strong>Malorie Thorson<\/strong>\u00a0of Waverly is representing Wright County, and\u00a0<strong>Haylie Wielenberg<\/strong> of Long Prairie is representing Todd County.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining five finalists include\u00a0<strong>Natalie Clemenson<\/strong>\u00a0of Zumbrota representing Goodhue County,\u00a0<strong>Monica Evers<\/strong>\u00a0of Kellogg representing Wabasha County,\u00a0<strong>Nicole Haushchild<\/strong>\u00a0of Zumbro Falls representing Wabasha County,\u00a0<strong>Alexis Hoefs<\/strong>\u00a0of New Prague representing Le Sueur County, and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Lauren Steffl<\/strong>\u00a0of Sleepy Eye representing Brown County.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, dairy princesses from across Minnesota gathered in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>To be a finalist for Princess Kay of the Milky Way, each candidate submitted an application, participated in a mock interview, delivered a speech, and participated in a mock media interview. They are judged on their general knowledge of the dairy industry, communication skills, and enthusiasm for promoting dairy.<\/p>\n<p>The 72nd Princess Kay will be crowned the day before the start of the Minnesota State Fair.<\/p>\n<div class=\"branded-app-shortcode-inarticle\">\n<div class=\"phone-input\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"bap-enter-number\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heidi Montag\u00a0of Sauk Rapids is representing Benton County,\u00a0April Klaphake\u00a0of Sauk Centre is representing Stearns County,\u00a0Paige Frenchick\u00a0of Manannah is representing Meeker County,\u00a0Malorie Thorson\u00a0of Waverly is representing Wright County, and\u00a0Haylie Wielenberg of Long Prairie is representing Todd County. The remaining five finalists include\u00a0Natalie Clemenson\u00a0of Zumbrota representing Goodhue County,\u00a0Monica Evers\u00a0of Kellogg representing Wabasha County,\u00a0Nicole Haushchild\u00a0of Zumbro Falls representing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2030-06-19 13:55:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142517,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142515\/revisions\/142517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}