{"id":16310,"date":"2014-09-10T14:24:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T21:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/save-the-par-3-for-future-generations\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T22:45:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T05:45:41","slug":"save-the-par-3-for-future-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/save-the-par-3-for-future-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the par 3 for future generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>My grandchildren from Seattle come to visit us, and one of the things we enjoy doing together, when they come, is putt-putt golf next to the par 3 course in Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I was once again reminded how disappointed we are by the decisions of the Kent City Council, Kent city officials and the city&#8217;s Land Use and Planning Board to rezone and sell the par 3 golf course.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It seems to me it would have been better to have never built the ShoWare Center \u2013\u00a0or maybe get rid of it \u2013\u00a0and save our beautiful open-space par 3 for our future generations to come.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Does Kent really need more apartments and commercial buildings? Take a look at the empty buildings and businesses in downtown Kent and Meeker Street.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>We are concerned about air pollution, etc., and yet you want to remove the little green, open space we have left.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If there is anything that could be done to change your minds, I beg you to consider other options. Maybe those of you who have made this decision don&#8217;t have grandchildren to consider for the quality of life in their future.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013\u00a0Eleanor Griffith<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandchildren from Seattle come to visit us, and one of the things we enjoy doing together, when they come, is putt-putt golf next to the par 3 course in Kent.<\/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-16310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310"}],"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=16310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16310"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}