{"id":4041,"date":"2016-04-17T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T17:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/play-ball-kent-little-league-welcomes-new-season\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T05:35:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T12:35:33","slug":"play-ball-kent-little-league-welcomes-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/play-ball-kent-little-league-welcomes-new-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Play ball! Kent Little League welcomes new season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Reporter staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kent Little League officially threw out the first pitch to the baseball season Saturday at Ryan Brunner Park.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Greg Whitcomb, Kent Little League president, welcomed parents, players and coaches in an opening day program that included a parade and introduction of teams onto the outfield, a flag ceremony, Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke&#8217;s keynote address and Travis Brunner&#8217;s ceremonial first pitch.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The carnival atmosphere welcomed face painting, booths, game trailer and bouncy house, team photos and sponsor\/vendor booths from local partners and sponsors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Games followed throughout the afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For team schedules and more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentll.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.kentll.org<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Little League officially threw out the first pitch to the baseball season Saturday at Ryan Brunner Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":4042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4041","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\/4041"}],"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=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}