{"id":26415,"date":"2017-02-09T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kent-relay-for-life-joins-seattle-thunderbirds-in-fight-against-cancer\/"},"modified":"2017-02-09T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:30:00","slug":"kent-relay-for-life-joins-seattle-thunderbirds-in-fight-against-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kent-relay-for-life-joins-seattle-thunderbirds-in-fight-against-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Relay for Life joins Seattle Thunderbirds in fight against cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Thunderbirds left wing player Ryan Gropp was 14 when his mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in Kamloops, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>The family &#8211; his dad and younger brother &#8211; were devastated watching Colleen Gropp going through chemotherapy. Three years later, the cancer returned. At age 20, Gropp understands how the disease has such a painful impact on patients and families.<\/p>\n<p>Today Gropp&rsquo;s mom is doing well, thanks, he says, to the cancer research that guided his mom&rsquo;s treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunderbirds play the Tri-City Americans at 7:35 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10 at the Showare Center. The American Cancer Society has partnered with the Thunderbirds to raise money for Relay For Life.<\/p>\n<p>For every $25 ticket, $12 is earmarked to help raise funds for cancer research and help end the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Fans must purchase tickets by midnight Thursday in order to participate in the cancer donation. Help support Relay For Life and help save lives and purchase your tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/soundpublishing.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfWZjb_aNYoxwItgAa1btT8xtmex0YmDSGdI3fxXN16VnxNRg\/viewform?c=0&#038;w=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benefit game Friday at the ShoWare Center <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":26416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415"}],"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=26415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26415"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}