{"id":26606,"date":"2017-02-17T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/making-a-stand\/"},"modified":"2017-02-17T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T18:30:00","slug":"making-a-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/making-a-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a stand"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am writing a followup to my letter published Feb. 3 (“Ashamed to be an American”).<\/p>\n

What a difference two weeks can make. Three superheroes from our state took a stand to protect immigrants. They did this without capes or masks, but with integrity, intelligence and idealism.<\/p>\n

I am so proud of Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Gov. Jay Inslee and Judge James Robart.<\/p>\n

While I remain ashamed for the words, attitudes and actions of our leaders in the other Washington, I can honestly say today that I am very proud to be a Washingtonian.<\/p>\n

– Steven Sutherland<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am writing a followup to my letter published Feb. 3 (“Ashamed to be an American”).<\/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-26606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26606"}],"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=26606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26606"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}