{"id":16493,"date":"2010-04-02T12:51:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/city-offers-swashbuckling-class\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T02:30:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T09:30:26","slug":"city-offers-swashbuckling-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/city-offers-swashbuckling-class\/","title":{"rendered":"City offers swashbuckling class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to learn how to sword fight? Then sign up for a swashbuckling class that starts April 26 as part of the city of Kent&#8217;s recreation program at the Kent Memorial Park building, 850 Central Ave. N.<\/p>\n<p>The class features nine sessions each Monday through June 28, except for May 31. The cost is $90. Participants must be at least 16 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Instructor Greg Michaels has been a sword-fighting instructor for more than 20 years. Participants only need to bring a thin pair o gardening-type gloves to the class. Michaels provides the swords and lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Michaels teaches hand-to-hand theatrical combat, including slaps, kicks and punches, as well as sword play with a broadsword and rapier.<\/p>\n<p>To register, call the city at 253-856-5000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to learn how to sword fight? Then sign up for a swashbuckling class that starts April 26 as part of the city of Kent&#8217;s recreation program at the Kent Memorial Park building, 850 Central Ave. N.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16493"}],"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=16493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16493"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}