{"id":2516,"date":"2025-09-21T01:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2025-09-21T01:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:31:16","slug":"miss-colorado-kelley-johnsons-speech-stuns-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=2516","title":{"rendered":"Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson\u2019s speech stuns audience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Kelley Johnson, Miss Colorado, stepped onto the stage during the second night of the Miss America preliminaries in Atlantic City, she didn\u2019t arrive draped in sequins or sporting a glittering costume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, Kelley chose something far more powerful \u2014 her nurse\u2019s scrubs. And what happened next left the audience in awe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than showcasing a flashy dance routine or belting out a Broadway tune, Kelley delivered a heartfelt monologue drawn from her real-life experience as a nurse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She spoke about her connection with an elderly&nbsp;Alzheimer\u2019s patient, sharing the raw, emotional moments that remind us all of the humanity and love that can be found in caregiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Miss Colorado skips the song and dance, talks about nursing\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nYoCW1DQWQE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Kelley Johnson, Miss Colorado, stepped onto the stage during the second night of the Miss America preliminaries in Atlantic City, she didn\u2019t arrive draped in sequins&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}