{"id":9269,"date":"2013-09-03T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-pride-2013-events-set-for-sept-6-8\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T00:25:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T07:25:26","slug":"kent-pride-2013-events-set-for-sept-6-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-pride-2013-events-set-for-sept-6-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Pride 2013 events set for Sept. 6-8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Gay Bingo is one of several events planned this weekend as part of Kent Pride 2013 to support gay pride in South King County.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Gay Bingo will start at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6 at the Kent Senior Center, 600 E. Smith St., sponsored by Kent Youth and Family Services.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Residents are invited to gather at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7 at Nashville&#8217;s bar, 114 Railroad Ave., or the AC Tavern, 209 E. Meeker St., to celebrate Kent Pride. The two gatherings are for people ages 21 and older.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The weekend wraps up with Pride Festival in the Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8 at Burlington Green Park, at West Meeker Street and Railroad Avenue North.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Sweet Themes Bakery is a sponsor of Kent Pride and will provide box lunches as well as custom rainbow cookies, cake and cupcakes during the weekend-long celebration.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cWe\u2019re really excited to be a part of Kent Pride 2013,\u201d said Alison Carchedi, owner of Sweet Themes Bakery, in a media release. \u201cWe are proud of our community\u2019s diversity and want to share in the celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Kent Downtown Partnership and Curran Law Firm also are event sponsors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kent Pride had its inaugural event in 2012.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For more information about Kent Pride 2013 or Sweet Themes Bakery, go to <a title=\"pride\" href=\"http:\/\/sweetthemesbakery.com\/2013\/sweet-themes-news-bites\/sweet-themes-bakery-celebrates-kent-pride-sept-6-8\/\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/sweetthemesbakery.com<\/a> or call the bakery at 253-981-4999. Hours of operation are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay Bingo is one of several events planned this weekend as part of Kent Pride 2013 to support gay pride in South King County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":9270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9269","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\/9269"}],"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=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}