{"id":36438,"date":"2018-08-28T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/city-employees-donate-school-supplies-cash-to-kent-meridian-high-school\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T00:30:00","slug":"city-employees-donate-school-supplies-cash-to-kent-meridian-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/city-employees-donate-school-supplies-cash-to-kent-meridian-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"City employees donate school supplies, cash to Kent-Meridian High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Dana Ralph and city of Kent employees delivered dozens of boxes of school supplies, 40 backpacks and a check for $1,040 to Kent-Meridian High School on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The city&rsquo;s Giving Campaign Committee led the effort in which employees from all city departments contributed to the back-to-school drive.<\/p>\n<p>City employees selected Kent-Meridian as the recipient because high schools are often left out of back-to-school drives, and many students at K-M are in need of supplies.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am so proud of our city employees who came together and collected needed school supplies for KM students,&rdquo; Ralph said. &ldquo;I was happy to help deliver backpacks, notebooks, calculators and other supplies, along with a check to buy whatever else is needed. As students return to school, it is important they have the supplies they need to make their year successful.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor, staff deliver boxes of school supplies and 40 backpacks <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":36439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-36438","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\/36438"}],"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=36438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36438"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}