{"id":32989,"date":"2018-02-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home\/the-other-robert-e-lee\/"},"modified":"2018-03-23T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T16:40:42","slug":"the-other-robert-e-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/podcasts\/the-other-robert-e-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"The other Robert E. Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, protested the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in August 2017, some residents of Kent, Washington noticed that their police department was located inside the Robert E. Lee Memorial Building. Wait&#8230; <em>what?<\/em> In part two of our What&rsquo;s in a Name series, we explore the origins of the building&rsquo;s name and discover a man who, to the people of Kent anyway, managed to overshadow the legacy of his namesake.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/tdxi9-87ba2f?from=site&#038;skin=1&#038;share=1&#038;fonts=Helvetica&#038;auto=0&#038;download=0\" height=\"100\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Featuring Vicki Lee Schmitz, now-former Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke, Kent City Councilmember Brenda Fincher, and Kent City Council President Bill Boyce.<\/p>\n<p>Music by <a href=\"http:\/\/promqueenmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leeni Ramadan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This week&rsquo;s cover photo features Vicki Lee Schmitz standing next to the building that is named after her father, Robert E. Lee. It was taken by Steve Hunter of the <\/em>Kent Reporter<em>, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/news\/why-the-robert-e-lee-memorial-building-in-kent-wont-be-changing-its-name\/\" target=\"_blank\">first reported this story last August<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people in Kent thought their police station was named for the Confederate general. They were wrong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":32990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,35],"tags":[33],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-32989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northwest","category-podcasts","tag-seattleland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32989"}],"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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32989"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}