{"id":8938,"date":"2013-11-07T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T22:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/protect-support-the-k9s-first\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T03:55:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T10:55:27","slug":"protect-support-the-k9s-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/protect-support-the-k9s-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect, support the K9s first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Kent Reporter made a reference to the city of Kent collecting more revenue than forecasted, and they were considering hiring more police officers (&#8220;City builds up cash reserves, might hire more police&#8221;, Oct. 25).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The paper also referenced the Kent Police Department accepting donations for protective vests for the K9 dogs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Wouldn&#8217;t it make sense to use the extra funds to purchase the protective vests for the officers (Kato and others) first?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013\u00a0Howard Lontz<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Reporter made a reference to the city of Kent collecting more revenue than forecasted, and they were considering hiring more police officers (&#8220;City builds up cash reserves, might hire more police&#8221;, Oct. 25).<\/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-8938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938"}],"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=8938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8938"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}