{"id":12991,"date":"2009-05-26T00:02:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T07:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/honoring-the-fallen-tahoma-national-cemetery-celebrates-memorial-day-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T19:40:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T02:40:34","slug":"honoring-the-fallen-tahoma-national-cemetery-celebrates-memorial-day-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/honoring-the-fallen-tahoma-national-cemetery-celebrates-memorial-day-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring the fallen: Tahoma National Cemetery celebrates Memorial Day in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, Memorial Day, was a blaze of flags and uniforms, as veterans, their families, and local visitors came to Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent to observe the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony featured colorguards, speeches and the sounds of a live band, all acknowledging the sacrifice so many gave in defense of their country.<\/p>\n<p>Family and friends also went among the gravestones to lay flowers in tribute to their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Photos for this slide show were taken by Brian Foss for the Kent Reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, Memorial Day, was a blaze of flags and uniforms, as veterans, their families, and local visitors came to Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent to observe the holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":12992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991"}],"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=12991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12991"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}