{"id":21578,"date":"2016-01-20T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/dont-take-away-our-park\/"},"modified":"2016-01-20T16:20:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T00:20:05","slug":"dont-take-away-our-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/dont-take-away-our-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t take away our park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The city of Kent has sold Pine Tree Park. This is a small property that has been a park for many decades.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Residents of Kent need to put a stop to this land grab by the city&#8217;s developer cronies. There is plenty of private land that can be bought for development. A park should be something that will be there for future generations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Unlike other properties the city has, this one was given to them for free with annexation from the county. Upkeep costs were minimal; they mowed the grass a few times a year. As more properties in the city are subdivided and developed, this small park will be a very valuable asset. But once it is gone, it&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Please write the council, show up for meetings and make an official comment about this planned development.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Kristy Herrick<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Kent has sold Pine Tree Park. This is a small property that has been a park for many decades.<\/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-21578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21578"}],"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=21578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21578"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}