{"id":42954,"date":"2017-08-28T05:15:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T05:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=42954"},"modified":"2017-08-28T05:15:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T05:15:59","slug":"former-miss-indiana-usa-from-elkhart-county-wins-mrs-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/former-miss-indiana-usa-from-elkhart-county-wins-mrs-america.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Miss Indiana USA from Elkhart County wins Mrs. America"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Former Miss Indiana USA from Elkhart County wins Mrs. America<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Former Miss Indiana USA from Elkhart County wins Mrs. America:- A former Miss Indiana USA winner, born and raised in Michiana, became Mrs. America Saturday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Mekayla Eppers (then Diehl), of Bristol, was named Miss Indiana USA 2014. She then went on to compete for Miss USA 2014, where she placed in the top 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">During the Miss USA pageant, she was praised for having what many called a \u201cnormal\u201d body. She is also of Native American descent and a survivor of sexual abuse, two things she discussed with NewsCenter 16\u2019s Tricia Sloma back in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">In the time since, Eppers has launched a fitness program and gotten married, the latter qualifying her to become Mrs. America 2018, which she did Saturday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">SOURCE:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.wndu.com\/content\/news\/Former-Miss-Indiana-USA-from-Elkhart-County-wins-Mrs-America-441931983.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/former-miss-indiana-usa-from-elkhart-county-wins-mrs-america.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Miss Indiana USA from Elkhart County wins Mrs. America Former Miss Indiana USA from Elkhart County wins Mrs. America:- A former Miss Indiana USA winner, born and raised in Michiana, became Mrs. America Saturday night. Mekayla Eppers (then Diehl), of Bristol, was named Miss Indiana USA 2014. She then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[55726,55725,55724],"class_list":["post-42954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-elkhart-county-wins-mrs-america","tag-former-miss-indiana-usa-from","tag-former-miss-indiana-usa-from-elkhart-county-wins-mrs-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}