{"id":3439,"date":"2013-10-24T15:17:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T22:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/water-polo-continue-to-grow\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:30:41","slug":"water-polo-continue-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/water-polo-continue-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Water polo continue to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I was very happy to read in the Oct. 18 Kent Reporter that water polo is growing in popularity in the area and that an invitational tournament brought more attention to the sport.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I played water polo in high school in Honolulu in the late &#8217;70s and early &#8217;80s, when it was also a developing sport with only four schools fielding teams. Since then, through promotions such as tournaments, water polo has steadily grown to be a popular sport with several schools now participating.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It has been 31 years since I played and although I was not a starter and I cannot remember the scores, I enjoyed the games and keep it as a source of pride. In practice I was able to &#8220;egg beater&#8221; across the pool holding three water polo balls over my head.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I want to wish Coach McKee and all of the individuals and players in the South Puget Sound League the best of luck in all of their games and continued success in growing the popularity of water polo in South King County.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013\u00a0Finn Palmer<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very happy to read in the Oct. 18 Kent Reporter that water polo is growing in popularity in the area and that an invitational tournament brought more attention to the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439"}],"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=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}