{"id":7567,"date":"2016-06-04T11:13:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T18:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/survivors-family-friends-take-part-in-kent-relay-for-life\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T11:40:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T18:40:37","slug":"survivors-family-friends-take-part-in-kent-relay-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/survivors-family-friends-take-part-in-kent-relay-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivors, family, friends take part in Kent Relay for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Reporter staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The American Cancer Society&#8217;s Kent Relay for Life fundraiser returned to French Field this weekend.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>As of Friday, 39 teams and 501 participants had raised $$91,870.47.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The opening ceremony began Friday evening with the posting of the colors followed by the singing of the national anthem and the survivors and caregivers&#8217; laps.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The relay included a luminaria ceremony. The relay was scheduled to end Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Nationally, the overnight event brings together more than 3.5 million people, raising more than $400 million.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>To donate and to learn more, visit <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/main.acsevents.org\/site\/TR\/RelayForLife\/RFLCY16GW?pg=entry&amp;fr_id=75501\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Cancer Society&#8217;s Kent Relay for Life fundraiser returned to French Field this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":7568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7567","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\/7567"}],"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=7567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7567"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}