{"id":52962,"date":"2021-11-22T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/kents-holiday-tree-lighting-and-parade-set-for-dec-4\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:33:00","slug":"kents-holiday-tree-lighting-and-parade-set-for-dec-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/kents-holiday-tree-lighting-and-parade-set-for-dec-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent&#8217;s Holiday Tree Lighting and Parade set for Dec. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get into the holiday spirit at the annual Holiday Tree Lighting and Parade on Saturday, Dec. 4 in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>The parade is at 4:30 p.m. through the Kent Station shopping center and historic downtown. The tree lighting is at 5:30 p.m. at Town Square Plaza, 115 Second Ave. N., near West Smith Street.<\/p>\n<p>The plaza&rsquo;s performance stage will include the Kentlake High Jazz Band, led by Jonathon Urmenita, from 3 to 3:20 p.m.; the Kent-Meridian High Choir, led by Heath Thompson, from 3:30 to 3:50 p.m.; and the Kentridge High Jazz Band, led by Brian Akesson, from 4 to 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Community booths will be open from 3 to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Santa will arrive at approximately 5:20 p.m. Bring your camera to take a picture with Santa. Drop off your holiday wish list in Santa&rsquo;s mailbox. He will have cards to fill out on site if you wish. (Include your mailing address if you want him to send you a note).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school choirs, bands to perform at Town Square Plaza <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":52963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52962"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52962"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=52962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}