{"id":45026,"date":"2020-03-17T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/thunderbirds-close-hockey-office-store-release-players-to-go-home\/"},"modified":"2020-03-17T15:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T22:31:58","slug":"thunderbirds-close-hockey-office-store-release-players-to-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/thunderbirds-close-hockey-office-store-release-players-to-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbirds close hockey office, store; release players to go home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds junior hockey team has closed its offices and team store at the accesso ShoWare Center in Kent and released its players to return home.<\/p>\n<p>The office and store will be closed indefinitely in response to COVID-19 virus distancing efforts, according to the T-birds on Tuesday. The team released all players to return home to their families while the Western Hockey League season remains suspended.<\/p>\n<p>T-Birds office staff will be working remotely and can answers fans questions or concerns via email. A listing of staff emails<a href=\"https:\/\/seattlethunderbirds.com\/staff\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"staff\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> can be found on the staff page of the T-Birds website<\/a>, scroll to the bottom of the staff page for emails. Staff members will respond as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds&rsquo; online team store will continue to operate at store.seattlethunderbirds.com. Outgoing shipments may be delayed.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds, in conjunction with the Canadian Hockey League and Western Hockey League, continue to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and will provide further updates when available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHL season remains suspended <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":45027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-45026","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\/45026"}],"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=45026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45026"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=45026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}