{"id":60143,"date":"2022-09-09T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/obituaries\/carl-t-erickson-obituary\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T21:20:00","slug":"carl-t-erickson-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/obituaries\/carl-t-erickson-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl T. Erickson | Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 16, 1952 &#8211; August 25, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Carl T. Erickson was born April 16, 1952 in Mooreland, OK to Robert and Rachel Erickson.<\/p>\n<p>He died August 25, 2022 at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland, OR<\/p>\n<p>Carl, whose friends knew him as Butch, grew up loving music and the outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>He hiked, biked, and kayaked across the western UnitedStatesbeforesettling in Kent, WA where he worked as a paraeducator at Panther Lake Elementary School for twenty-nine years.<\/p>\n<p>At Panther Lake he delighted in finding creative ways to help non-English speakers find success in math and English, and he enjoyed encouraging reluctant learners to develop reading skills.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate Carl&rsquo;s life by doing something special for a student or teacher&#8230; or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 16, 1952 &#8211; August 25, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":60144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-60143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60143"}],"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=60143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60143"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=60143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}