{"id":1440,"date":"2015-07-27T17:55:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T00:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/family-members-of-seahawks-players-to-speak-at-showare-center\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T21:05:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T04:05:28","slug":"family-members-of-seahawks-players-to-speak-at-showare-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/family-members-of-seahawks-players-to-speak-at-showare-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Family members of Seahawks players to speak at ShoWare Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Family members of several Seattle Seahawks football players will host a parent empowerment event on Thursday, July 30, at the ShoWare Center, 625 W. James St. in Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Hawks Birds Nest: A Family Affair is free and open to the community. Tickets can be reserved <a href=\"http:\/\/HawksBirdsNest.eventbrite.com\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Beverly and Kevin Sherman, parents of Richard Sherman; Sunshine Lynch, Marshawn Lynch&#8217;s mother; Debbie and Earl Thomas Jr., Earl Thomas III&#8217;s parents, and Bobby Wagner Sr. and Nakima Ward, Bobby Wagner&#8217;s father and sister, have teamed up with Foster Enterprise to create Hawks Birds Nest, a global consortium which gives celebrity families an educational platform to empower others through service and sharing personal testimonies.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Doors for the event open at 4 p.m. The event will feature interactive vendor booths, video presentations, entertainment and special performances, community speakers and presentations by Beverly and Kevin Sherman, Sunshine Lynch and Debbie and Earl Thomas Jr.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Timmie Foster, representative for the event, said the event is family friendly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;The content is very well parent focused, but kids can get a lot from it because it is talking about raising Marshawn, raising Richard and raising Earl Thomas,&#8221; Foster said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family members of several Seattle Seahawks football players will host a parent empowerment event on Thursday, July 30, at the ShoWare Center, 625 W. James St. in Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":1441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440"}],"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\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}