{"id":63339,"date":"2023-07-05T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/fun-times-in-kent-at-fourth-of-july-splash-at-lake-meridian-photos\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:40:00","slug":"fun-times-in-kent-at-fourth-of-july-splash-at-lake-meridian-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/fun-times-in-kent-at-fourth-of-july-splash-at-lake-meridian-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun times in Kent at Fourth of July Splash at Lake Meridian | Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fireworks display returned to the city of Kent&rsquo;s Fourth of July Splash at Lake Meridian Park for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the fireworks, attendees enjoyed music from the Seattle-based Massy Ferguson band and the The I Corps Concert band, of Joint Base Lewis-McChord.<\/p>\n<p>Food trucks at the event were from Half Lion Brewing, Fire Tacos de Birria, Mocha Motion and Kettle Beach Concessions.<\/p>\n<p>Swimmers took advantage of the hot, sunny day by taking to the water.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic halted Splash in 2020 and 2021, and in 2022, the city had music and activities, but no fireworks show due to a lack of staff in the Kent Police Department and city Parks Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fireworks, food trucks, music and cooling off in the water <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":63340,"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\/63339"}],"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=63339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63339"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}