{"id":16236,"date":"2012-07-31T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-firefighters-fill-the-boot-to-raise-funds-for-mda\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T04:15:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T11:15:32","slug":"kent-firefighters-fill-the-boot-to-raise-funds-for-mda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-firefighters-fill-the-boot-to-raise-funds-for-mda\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent firefighters Fill the Boot to raise funds for MDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Local firefighters will hit the streets on Friday, Aug. 3 with boots in hand, as they kick off their annual Fill-the-Boot fundraising campaign for children and adults with muscle-wasting diseases.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Committed to the eradication of neuromuscular diseases, the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) is a longtime friend and supporter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Fill-the-Boot drives are the primary means by which the IAFF has raised nearly $475 million for MDA since 1954.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In 2011, firefighters in Kent raised more than $8,000, one boot at a time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Fill-The-Boot funds support MDA&#8217;s services locally and nationally, including medical clinics staffed with specialists in muscle disease and accessible summer camp for kids. Local clinics and camps benefiting from Fill-the-Boot funds include University of Washington Medical Clinic, Children&#8217;s Hospital, and Camp Cedar Spring in Lake Stevens.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local firefighters will hit the streets on Friday, Aug. 3 with boots in hand, as they kick off their annual Fill-the-Boot fundraising campaign for children and adults with muscle-wasting diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16236"}],"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=16236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16236"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}