{"id":5597,"date":"2016-04-17T10:41:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T17:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/dog-day-afternoon-pampered-pet-walk-finds-downtown-kent-slideshow\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T16:30:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T23:30:29","slug":"dog-day-afternoon-pampered-pet-walk-finds-downtown-kent-slideshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/dog-day-afternoon-pampered-pet-walk-finds-downtown-kent-slideshow\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog day afternoon: Pampered Pet Walk finds downtown Kent | SLIDESHOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>They came in all shapes and sizes, shaggy and thin in fur, wet and dry in noses and long and short in tails.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Proud owners took their beloved Fidos on a friendly tour of historic downtown at Kent&#8217;s annual Pampered Pet Walk on a sun-splashed Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The free event, put on the by Kent Downtown Partnership \u2013 with help from sponsors and groups \u2013 drew a big crowd.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Led by state Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn, his wife Steffanie and their dog Waffles, and Kent City Councilwoman Dana Ralph, the group completed a short walk, then gathered at Kherson Park for entertainment, photos and conversation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There were contests for best costumes and tricks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>To learn more about the KDP, visit <a title=\"downtownkentwa.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downtownkentwa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">downtownkentwa.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They came in all shapes and sizes, shaggy and thin in fur, wet and dry in noses and long and short in tails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":5598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5597","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\/5597"}],"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=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}