{"id":13229,"date":"2008-07-10T21:46:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T04:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent4health-initiative-logs-miles-to-beijing-olympics\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T09:35:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T16:35:29","slug":"kent4health-initiative-logs-miles-to-beijing-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/kent4health-initiative-logs-miles-to-beijing-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent4Health initiative logs miles to Beijing Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s more than 17,000 miles from Kent to the center of the upcoming Olympic games in Beijing, China.<\/p>\n

But a community health initiative is attempting to make that distance seem a lot shorter for locals here.<\/p>\n

Between now and the games\u2019 opening ceremony Aug. 8, organizers of the Kent4Health initiative are inviting walkers, cyclists and runners to log their miles on a Web site, to have Kent go the distance to the games.<\/p>\n

The Web site is at www.kent4health.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

As of Thursday, participants logged 933 miles to the Chinese capital – meaning they haven\u2019t yet gotten out of the continental United States.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s still a month yet to go for this event, titled \u201cWalk, Run, Ride and Roll to the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Participants in the Web-based contest can log in every time they complete a workout, and can check their own progress online, as well as the overall Kent mileage.<\/p>\n

Kent will conduct its own awards ceremony following the Aug. 8 deadline, honoring participants who have logged the most miles.<\/p>\n

The Kent4Health initiative is spearheaded by Mayor Suzette Cooke, and operates through a growing number of community participants.<\/p>\n

For more information about the mileage, or the initiative in general, go to www.kent4health.com, or call 253-856-4968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s more than 17,000 miles from Kent to the center of the upcoming Olympic games in Beijing, China.
\nBut a community health initiative is attempting to make that distance seem a lot shorter for locals here.
\nBetween now and the games\u2019 opening ceremony Aug. 8, organizers of the Kent4Health initiative are inviting walkers, cyclists and runners to log their miles on a Web site, to have Kent go the distance to the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":13230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13229"}],"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=13229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13229"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}