{"id":22340,"date":"2016-09-20T16:42:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-area-council-pta-clothing-bank-receives-boot-donation\/"},"modified":"2016-11-07T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T19:00:26","slug":"kent-area-council-pta-clothing-bank-receives-boot-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-area-council-pta-clothing-bank-receives-boot-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Area Council PTA Clothing Bank receives boot donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A Kent-based shoe company donated more than 400 pairs of boots to the Kent Area Council PTA Clothing Bank during the clothing bank&#8217;s opening night of the school year on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Washington Shoe Company&#8217;s foundation, Wear a Big Smile, also visited KentHOPE, a day center for homeless women and children, on Aug. 24, giving away 30 pairs of boots.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The events are a part of the foundation&#8217;s goal to donate $125,000 in product to community organizations this year to celebrate Washington Shoe Company&#8217;s 125th anniversary. Rob Moehring, former CEO of Washington Shoe, created the foundation earlier this year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Wear a Big Smile also plans to donate boots to 80 kindergarteners at Kent&#8217;s Millennium Elementary School on Oct. 6.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Washington Shoe distributed raincoats and rain boots at the clothing bank last spring.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The clothing bank, which is in Kent Phoenix Academy on the East Hill, is opened two Tuesdays a month during the school year.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kent-based shoe company donated more than 400 pairs of boots to the Kent Area Council PTA Clothing Bank during the clothing bank&#8217;s opening night of the school year on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":22341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340"}],"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=22340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22340"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}