{"id":6031,"date":"2014-12-03T17:25:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T01:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/let-woman-feed-the-hungry\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T01:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T08:00:37","slug":"let-woman-feed-the-hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/let-woman-feed-the-hungry\/","title":{"rendered":"Let woman feed the hungry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I read a disturbing article about Kent officials closing down a service run by Sharon Carter since 2008 that feeds 3.000 hungry residents per month for no other reason than too much traffic in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Ms. Carter has a business license and has modified her home to get it to city code. She receives donations from local businesses, what a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Ms. Carter said she would buy a shuttle bus to get the food offsite for people to pick up but city officials say no go.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The reason, given by Kent Building Services employee Robert Hutchinson, is to &#8220;to protect and maintain our community&#8217;s standards.&#8221; Really? Doesn&#8217;t &#8220;protecting and maintaining community standards&#8221; include helping those in need?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Here&#8217;s a thought: why don&#8217;t city officials work &#8220;with&#8221; Ms Carter to help her find a place to distribute food instead of shutting her operation down? God help you all if you find yourselves with not enough food. You won&#8217;t be able to get any help from Sharon Carter if you continue down this road.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I am greatly saddened and dismayed to read this story.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Ellen Powell<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a disturbing article about Kent officials closing down a service run by Sharon Carter since 2008 that feeds 3.000 hungry residents per month for no other reason than too much traffic in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031"}],"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=6031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6031"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}