{"id":64779,"date":"2023-09-28T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home2\/gov-jay-inslee-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:36:00","slug":"gov-jay-inslee-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/gov-jay-inslee-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Jay Inslee tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Gov. Jay Inslee tested positive Thursday, Sept. 28 for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>He is experiencing very mild symptoms including a mild cough, according to a Sept. 28 news release from the Office of the Governor. He will continue working and taking meetings virtually.<\/p>\n<p>The governor was exposed to an individual who tested positive for COVID-19 prior to receiving his updated booster Wednesday evening, Sept. 27, according to the news release. He tested positive Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;COVID remains with us and vaccination remains as important as ever,&rdquo; Inslee said. &ldquo;We are so appreciative that we have this vaccine that has the ability to keep you out of the hospital or worse. I&rsquo;m glad I received it and encourage others to take advantage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lsquo;He is experiencing very mild symptoms, including a mild cough&rsquo; governor&rsquo;s office says <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":64780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-64779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64779"}],"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=64779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64779"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=64779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}