{"id":1056,"date":"2012-04-27T15:27:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T22:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/change-in-tone-over-showare\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T22:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T05:00:33","slug":"change-in-tone-over-showare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/change-in-tone-over-showare\/","title":{"rendered":"Change in tone over ShoWare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>After reading Steve Hunter&#8217;s story on the Kent City Council&#8217;s recent approval of an economic study of the ShoWare Center (April 20), it occurred to me the council&#8217;s current rationale for owning an event center has changed over the past five years.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>As an example, see Reporter stories from July 7 and 21, 2008 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/22948384.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.kentreporter.com\/news\/22948384.html<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/25600309.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.kentreporter.com\/news\/25600309.html<\/a>).The theme in 2008 seemed to be &#8220;no worries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The City of Wenatchee can attest that hope is not a plan when applied to an event center.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>What is Kent&#8217;s plan for future years if large subsidies for the ShoWare Center need to continue?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Don Villeneuve<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Steve Hunter&#8217;s story on the Kent City Council&#8217;s recent approval of an economic study of the ShoWare Center (April 20), it occurred to me the council&#8217;s current rationale for owning an event center has changed over the past five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}