{"id":20844,"date":"2014-04-09T14:53:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T21:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/selling-the-par-3-golf-course-a-big-mistake\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T22:50:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T05:50:34","slug":"selling-the-par-3-golf-course-a-big-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/selling-the-par-3-golf-course-a-big-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling the par 3 golf course a big mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The reasons for selling are the same reasons for keeping the par 3. The money from the par 3 will soon be gone, then what valuable asset will Kent then sell?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The par 3 sits on the Green River with stunning views of Mount Rainier. Do we need a better reason for keeping it? The City Council should be working for the community, not developers. Let&#8217;s make the Riverbend Golf Complex part of the park system and protect a beautiful area for the citizens and future residents.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kent does not need an (18-hole) golf course. We have more than enough of them without it, even if it is such a (financial) loser. That is something Kent could sell rather than a slogan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Robert Sjolin<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reasons for selling are the same reasons for keeping the par 3. The money from the par 3 will soon be gone, then what valuable asset will Kent then sell?<\/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-20844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20844"}],"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=20844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20844"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}