{"id":63466,"date":"2023-07-17T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/thousands-fill-downtown-streets-for-kent-cornucopia-days-photos\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T23:24:00","slug":"thousands-fill-downtown-streets-for-kent-cornucopia-days-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/thousands-fill-downtown-streets-for-kent-cornucopia-days-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands fill downtown streets for Kent Cornucopia Days | Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people filled downtown streets over the weekend for the 50th year of Kent Cornucopia Days.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kent Cornucopia Days by the Kent Lions is here,&rdquo; Kent Mayor Dana Ralph said after opening day on July 14 of the three-day festival. &ldquo;Our downtown streets are filled with smiles, great food, fun vendors and fabulous performances.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The free event featured a street fair on downtown streets with more than 200 vendors and 30 food booths and a food court. Dragon boat races were on Lake Meridian. The Grand Parade was Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 427 registered participants ran or walked in Saturday&rsquo;s Kent Cornucopia Days 5K run and walk along the Green River.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Shepard, 23, of Kent, won the race in 17 minutes, 8 seconds. Allison Gagne, 17, of Renton, had the fastest female time of 19:05.5, which was 12th overall of the 336 race participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5K run and walk, dragon boat races part of the annual festival <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":63467,"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\/63466"}],"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=63466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63466"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}