{"id":5544,"date":"2012-12-26T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/davita-employees-honor-veterans\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T07:10:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:10:28","slug":"davita-employees-honor-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/davita-employees-honor-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"DaVita employees honor veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A group of DaVita employees from Kent volunteered with friends and family to lay 1,600 wreaths on graves at Tahoma National Cemetery on Dec. 15.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The day including a ceremony with prayer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For lead volunteer Karen Lemley, family and volunteers, it was an opportunity to honor veterans. Lemley&#8217;s son-in-law, Army Sgt. Michael E. Ristau, who was killed in Afghanistan in July.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The effort was part of the DaVita employees&#8217; &#8220;Village Service Day,&#8221; a community project that embraces the spirit of Wreaths Across America \u2013\u00a0the placing of wreaths on graves in all 50 states, including 24 national cemeteries.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The symbolic gesture, which honors veterans for their service, began more than 20 years ago at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Wreaths Across America, a nonprofit organization, has expanded since the inaugural ceremony at Arlington.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of DaVita employees from Kent volunteered with friends and family to lay 1,600 wreaths on graves at Tahoma National Cemetery on Dec. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":5545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5544","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\/5544"}],"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=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}