{"id":36539,"date":"2018-09-05T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/reporter-male-athlete-of-the-week-faleatua-tua-areta\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:45:00","slug":"reporter-male-athlete-of-the-week-faleatua-tua-areta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/reporter-male-athlete-of-the-week-faleatua-tua-areta\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter Male Athlete of the Week: Faleatua (Tua) Areta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kent-Meridian High School&rsquo;s Faleatua (Tua) Areta, football, was selected as the Kent Reporter&rsquo;s Male Athlete of the Week for Sept.7.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Q: What is your favorite subject in school?<\/p>\n<p>A: History<\/p>\n<p>Q: What other activities do you participate in?<\/p>\n<p>A: Playing the ukulele.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Person who has helped you succeed the most?<\/p>\n<p>A: Mom and dad<\/p>\n<p>Q: Do you have a pre- or postgame tradition? What is it?<\/p>\n<p>A: Pre-game prayer<\/p>\n<p>Q: Song you currently can&rsquo;t get enough of?<\/p>\n<p>A: &ldquo;Trip&rdquo; by Ella Mai<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the Sideline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Tua is a four-year varsity and track and field athlete. Last year was a second-team All-North Puget Sound League Cascade lineman in football,&rdquo; said Royals coach Justin Callander. &ldquo;He was a district qualifier in the shot put and discus last spring in track. His cumulative GPA is 3.508, and he is planning on playing football at the college level next year.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kent-Meridian High School&rsquo;s Faleatua (Tua) Areta, football, was selected as the Kent Reporter&rsquo;s Male Athlete of the Week for Sept.7.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":36540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-36539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36539"}],"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=36539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36539"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}