{"id":43543,"date":"2019-12-13T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-winterfest-warms-the-holiday-heart\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:08:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T19:08:54","slug":"kent-winterfest-warms-the-holiday-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-winterfest-warms-the-holiday-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Winterfest warms the holiday heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carolers, families and children came to the Town Square Plaza for the annual Kent Winterfest Celebration last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by the Kent Lions Club, the event included a visit from Santa Claus and a tree and park lighting ceremony synchronized to music.<\/p>\n<p>Local bands and choirs performed throughout the afternoon. The Kent Library provided holiday children&rsquo;s activities.<\/p>\n<p>Free hot apple cider, hot chocolate and popcorn were served. Activities included a free raf&#64258;e with prizes for children and adults.<\/p>\n<p>People were asked to bring new toys for the Puget Sound Fire Toys for Joy program, food for the Kent Food Bank and used eye glasses for Lions International.<\/p>\n<p><ins>Thompson is with choir<\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolers, families and children came to the Town Square Plaza for the annual Kent Winterfest Celebration last Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":43553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-43543","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\/43543"}],"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=43543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43543"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=43543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}