{"id":29708,"date":"2017-08-02T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/hundreds-seek-work-during-amazon-jobs-day\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T01:00:00","slug":"hundreds-seek-work-during-amazon-jobs-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/hundreds-seek-work-during-amazon-jobs-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds seek work during Amazon Jobs Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people lined up outside of Amazon&rsquo;s Kent fulfillment center on Wednesday morning in hopes of securing a job.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle-based company hosted its first Jobs Day, which included facility tours and on-the-spot job offers for more than 1,200 part-time and full-time positions at fulfillment centers in the Puget Sound region. The event was one of several at Amazon sites throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants, varying in age and background, lined up outside a tent in the Kent center&rsquo;s parking lot waiting for an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The 800,000-plus square-foot facility, 21005 64th Ave. S., opened in March 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people lined up outside of Amazon&rsquo;s Kent fulfillment center on Wednesday morning in hopes of securing a job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":29709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-29708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29708"}],"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=29708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29708"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}