{"id":55542,"date":"2022-02-25T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/unity-for-ukraine-vigil-set-for-tuesday-march-1-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T03:44:00","slug":"unity-for-ukraine-vigil-set-for-tuesday-march-1-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/unity-for-ukraine-vigil-set-for-tuesday-march-1-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Unity for Ukraine vigil set for Tuesday, March 1 in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Unity for Ukraine vigil is planned from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 1 at the Kent City Hall courtyard, 220 Fourth Ave. S.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Dana Ralph announced in her weekly update Friday that members of the South County community will host the vigil. Attendees are asked to begin gathering at 6 p.m. Speakers will begin at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>At the 7 p.m. City Council meeting following the vigil, Ralph will present an official proclamation expressing the city&rsquo;s support for its Ukrainian community members in Kent and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4,000 Ukrainian-Americans live in Kent, the largest Ukrainian population in the state, Ralph said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 24 and continues to try to overtake the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6:30 to 7 p.m. at Kent City Hall <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":55543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-55542","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\/55542"}],"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=55542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55542"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=55542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}