{"id":28187,"date":"2017-05-05T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/thunderstorm-zaps-kent-area\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:12:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T17:12:56","slug":"thunderstorm-zaps-kent-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/thunderstorm-zaps-kent-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm zaps Kent area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strong thunderstorms, with lightning strikes and strong gusts, rolled through Kent and Western Washington Thursday afternoon, downing trees and knocking out power to tens of thousands.<\/p>\n<p>The storm cut power and caused minor damage in the path of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service in Seattle said a wind gust of 50 mph was recorded in the South Sound.<\/p>\n<p>The NWS said there were about 2,500 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes from Lewis County to the Canadian border on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strong thunderstorms, with lightning strikes and strong gusts, rolled through Kent and Western Washington Thursday afternoon, downing trees and knocking out power to tens of thousands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":28188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28187","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\/28187"}],"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=28187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28187"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}