{"id":30560,"date":"2017-09-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/thunderbirds-open-whl-season-saturday-at-showare\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T20:00:00","slug":"thunderbirds-open-whl-season-saturday-at-showare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/thunderbirds-open-whl-season-saturday-at-showare\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbirds open WHL season Saturday at ShoWare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds open the regular season at 7:05 p.m. Saturday against the Tri-City Americans at the accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds encourage fans to be in their seats by 6:55 p.m. as the team will raise the Western Conference and Western Hockey League champion banners to the rafters in a pre-game ceremony. The full 2017-2018 team roster also will be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Fans attending the game are invited to the Party on the Plaza, featuring food, music and a beer garden starting at 4 p.m. The team will arrive with the Ed Chynoweth Cup at 5 p.m. Seattle musician Aaron Crawford will perform at the Party on the Plaza. Crawford just released his second album, &ldquo;Evergreen,&rdquo; which embraces the sounds of living in the Northwest.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds come into their opener having lost six of their seven preseason games.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, including ticket purchases, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlethunderbirds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">seattlethunderbirds.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds open the regular season at 7:05 p.m. Saturday against the Tri-City Americans at the accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560"}],"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=30560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30560"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}