{"id":55503,"date":"2022-02-24T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-mayor-ralph-issues-statement-in-support-of-ukrainian-americans\/"},"modified":"2022-02-24T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T21:53:00","slug":"kent-mayor-ralph-issues-statement-in-support-of-ukrainian-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-mayor-ralph-issues-statement-in-support-of-ukrainian-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Mayor Ralph issues statement in support of Ukrainian-Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 4,000 Ukrainian-Americans living in the city of Kent, Mayor Dana Ralph issued a statement on Thursday, Feb. 24 in support of the Ukrainian community after Russia invaded the country earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The city of Kent stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian community at home and abroad,&rdquo; Ralph said. &ldquo;With over 4,000 Ukrainian-American residents, the city of Kent is home to the largest Ukrainian population in the state of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Americans with Ukrainian heritage living in Kent have enriched our community and have been a part of our cultural fabric for decades &#8211; making significant contributions to the city at large.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our thoughts are with the Ukrainian people as they endure this violence, and with the Russian people standing against it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 4,000 Ukrainian-Americans live in the city <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":55504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-55503","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\/55503"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55503"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=55503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}