{"id":21741,"date":"2012-01-17T16:23:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-severe-weather-shelter-open-tuesday-wednesday-nights\/"},"modified":"2012-01-17T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:23:12","slug":"kent-severe-weather-shelter-open-tuesday-wednesday-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-severe-weather-shelter-open-tuesday-wednesday-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent severe weather shelter open Tuesday, Wednesday nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The city of Kent Severe Weather Shelter at Kent Lutheran Church will remain open Tuesday, Jan. 17 and Wednesday, Jan. 18 due to predictions of dangerously low temperatures and snow.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The shelter is at <a title=\"church\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kentlutheran.org\/severeweathershelter.html\" target=\"_self\">Kent Lutheran Church<\/a>, 336 Second Ave. S.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Check in and registration starts at 9 p.m. each night. The shelter closes at 7 in the morning and everyone must vacate the premises.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Priority is given to homeless families with children who are living on the streets or in vehicles, but the shelter is also available for unaccompanied women and men; separate sleeping space has been prepared for men, women, and for families with children.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Catholic Community Services staff and volunteers from Kent Lutheran Church and the greater Kent community operate the shelter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Kent shelter has been open overnight since Sunday, safely sheltering approximately 20 men and women.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There are also shelters open in Renton, Federal Way, Bellevue, and Seattle. Please contact the Crisis Clinic by dialing 211 to access shelters in these other areas.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Kent Severe Weather Shelter at Kent Lutheran Church will remain open Tuesday, Jan. 17 and Wednesday, Jan. 18 due to predictions of dangerously low temperatures and snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21741"}],"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=21741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21741"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}