{"id":40802,"date":"2019-05-31T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/relay-for-life-opens-friday-at-kents-french-field\/"},"modified":"2019-05-31T11:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T18:13:28","slug":"relay-for-life-opens-friday-at-kents-french-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/relay-for-life-opens-friday-at-kents-french-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Relay for Life opens Friday, June 7 at Kent&#8217;s French Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual American Cancer Society&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.acsevents.org\/site\/STR\/RelayForLife\/RFLCY19WER?pg=entry&#038;fr_id=92844\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\">Relay for Life of South King County<\/a> begins with opening ceremonies at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 7, at French Field next to Kent-Meridian High School, 10020 SE 256th St.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which goes through 10 a.m. Saturday June 8, is a cancer fundraiser for the communities of Kent, Covington, Black Diamond, Maple Valley, Federal Way, Auburn and Enumclaw. Organizers set a goal to raise $150,000.<\/p>\n<p>Featured activities include the Survivor\/Caregiver Walk and the Luminaria Ceremony, where each light represents a life taken by cancer, a survivor of cancer or a support for a person still fighting the disease. The ceremony gives people the opportunity to grieve but also offers comfort and hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual American Cancer Society fundraiser <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":40803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-40802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802"}],"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=40802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}