{"id":47066,"date":"2020-08-31T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/thousands-get-free-food-face-masks-at-city-run-kent-event\/"},"modified":"2020-08-31T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T01:22:12","slug":"thousands-get-free-food-face-masks-at-city-run-kent-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/thousands-get-free-food-face-masks-at-city-run-kent-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands get free food, face masks at city-run Kent event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of families received food boxes, face masks and hand sanitizer during a free distribution event Friday, Aug. 28 at the accesso ShoWare Center parking lot in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>The event started at 9:30 a.m. and closed down about 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m so proud of our community for coming together during this challenging time to make these resources available to our residents and Kent families,&rdquo; Mayor Dana Ralph said in a statement. &ldquo;Thank you to the incredible volunteers, staff and partners that made Friday&rsquo;s PPE and food box distribution event at ShoWare Center such a huge success.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The city of Kent partnered with Pacific Coast Fruit to distribute the items to help people combat the impact of COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicles line up at ShoWare Center <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":47067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-47066","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\/47066"}],"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\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47066"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=47066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}