{"id":33274,"date":"2018-02-27T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-mayor-sets-state-of-the-city-address-for-april-26\/"},"modified":"2018-02-27T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:21:00","slug":"kent-mayor-sets-state-of-the-city-address-for-april-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-mayor-sets-state-of-the-city-address-for-april-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent mayor sets State of the City address for April 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Mayor Dana Ralph will give her first State of the City address on Thursday, April 26, in the Kent City Council Chambers, 220 Fourth Ave. S.<\/p>\n<p>The event will start with a reception at 6:30 p.m. in the City Hall lobby, followed by the address at 7 p.m. Ralph expects to speak for about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph, elected by voters in November, replaced Suzette Cooke who served 12 years in office but decided not to run for a fourth term. Cooke held most of her most recent State of the City addresses at the city-owned accesso ShoWare Center during a Kent Chamber of Commerce membership luncheon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph will speak at Council Chambers <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":33275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33274","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\/33274"}],"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=33274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33274"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}