{"id":57002,"date":"2022-04-29T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/kent-international-festival-to-return-june-18-to-showare-center\/"},"modified":"2022-04-29T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T01:05:00","slug":"kent-international-festival-to-return-june-18-to-showare-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/kent-international-festival-to-return-june-18-to-showare-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent International Festival to return June 18 to ShoWare Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 14th annual Kent International Festival will return to the accesso ShoWare Center in Kent after two years of being virtual due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The free festival is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 18.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This event is a celebration of the cultural diversity represented in our city, and it&rsquo;s a great way to come together, celebrate various heritages and build respect, understanding and a sense of inclusivity in our community,&rdquo; Kent Mayor Dana Ralph said in her weekly update.<\/p>\n<p>It will feature performers, cultural and informational booths and much more. Organizers are still accepting applications through Friday, May 6 for booths and volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/kentinternationalfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\" rel=\"noopener\">kentinternationalfestival.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event celebrates cultural diversity of city <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":57003,"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\/57002"}],"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=57002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57002"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=57002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}