{"id":7041,"date":"2015-07-08T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/congressman-smith-honors-kents-torklift-central-for-food-bank-donations\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T23:50:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T06:50:35","slug":"congressman-smith-honors-kents-torklift-central-for-food-bank-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/congressman-smith-honors-kents-torklift-central-for-food-bank-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Smith honors Kent&#8217;s Torklift Central for food bank donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Congressman Adam Smith, D-Bellevue, visited Torklift Central in Kent on July 2 to present a certificate to company president Jack Kay that recognizes the business for its annual Turkey Challenge that raises food and money donations for the Kent Food Bank each fall.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>People in need can show up at the food bank to get all the items they need to enjoy Thanksgiving dinners.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Smith recognized the achievements of Torklift Central with a statement in April in the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Local businesses compete in the Turkey Challenge to raise food and money. In 2014, the fourth annual Challenge raised 10,820 pounds of canned food and $22,418 in donations.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Adam Smith, D-Bellevue, visited Torklift Central in Kent on July 2 to present a certificate to company president Jack Kay that recognizes the business for its annual Turkey Challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":7042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7041","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\/7041"}],"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=7041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}