{"id":3342,"date":"2015-05-21T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T18:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/community-celebrates-public-works-week\/"},"modified":"2015-05-21T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T18:35:13","slug":"community-celebrates-public-works-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/community-celebrates-public-works-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Community celebrates Public Works Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Residents don&#8217;t often think about the public works employees who make their city run so smoothly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It&#8217;s taken for granted that water will flow from the tap, toilets will flush, potholes will be filled and trees will be trimmed. But once a year, the city of Kent encourages residents to reflect on the comfort and quality of life that public works employees help to provide.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Residents learned about these services firsthand by attending a free event Monday at the ShoWare Center. The event showcased projects and programs, celebrated achievements and introduced students to careers in the trades.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents don&#8217;t often think about the public works employees who make their city run so smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":3343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3342","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\/3342"}],"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=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}