{"id":8215,"date":"2012-06-19T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T20:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-residents-invited-to-speed-candidating-event-july-12\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T15:20:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:20:33","slug":"kent-residents-invited-to-speed-candidating-event-july-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-residents-invited-to-speed-candidating-event-july-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent residents invited to Speed Candidating event July 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Kent Chamber of Commerce will host an event allowing voters to connect with local candidates in a fun way.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The event takes place from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on July 12 in the Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Speed Candidating is free for chamber members, $20 for non-members.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><p>Speed Candidating will feature the 16 candidates for State House and Senate in the Kent District talking with residents in short intervals, much like the protocol for speed dating. There will be 16 tables with 10 seats, one seat for the candidate and nine seats for participants.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><p>Those wishing to participate must register as space is limited. Register by calling 253-854-1770 or emailing info@kentchamber.com.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Chamber of Commerce will host an event allowing voters to connect with local candidates in a fun way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215"}],"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=8215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8215"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}