{"id":20078,"date":"2009-05-05T16:34:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T23:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/free-up-city-funding-by-using-arts-dollars\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T20:05:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T03:05:24","slug":"free-up-city-funding-by-using-arts-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/free-up-city-funding-by-using-arts-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Free up city funding by using arts dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When one reads about teaching job cuts in a down economy one begins to realize that planners everywhere will trim essential services in place of non-essential ones. In these difficult times funding for the arts needs to be closely examined.<\/p>\n<p>Arts funding has historically been engaged in by private parties, not governmental agencies. Art is a subjective luxury and should not be paid for through taxation.<\/p>\n<p>How many police, firefighting and other necessary personnel have not been hired because money was spent placing an ugly piece of metal in a park or in front of a municipal building?<\/p>\n<p>I ask Kent Schools Superintendent Barbara Grohe how many teaching jobs could be saved if the City of Kent would free up funds wasted by its Arts Commission?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>John Kohler<\/p>\n<p>Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one reads about teaching job cuts in a down economy one begins to realize that planners everywhere will trim essential services in place of non-essential ones. In these difficult times funding for the arts needs to be closely examined. Arts funding has historically been engaged in by private parties, not governmental agencies. Art is [&hellip;]<\/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-20078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20078"}],"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=20078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20078"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}