{"id":31053,"date":"2020-02-15T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rentonnews.us\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor-for-the-week-of-feb-14\/"},"modified":"2020-02-15T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T09:30:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-for-the-week-of-feb-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/letters\/letters-to-the-editor-for-the-week-of-feb-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the editor for the week of Feb. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tommy the turtle &mdash; a childhood friend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear editor,<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Tommy the Turtle&rdquo; was indeed designed and sculpted by my father, Milton Hebald. It was a commission from Creative Playthings.<\/p>\n<p>I can still remember the original in his studio. Turtles were my favorite pets, and I had many of them, which no doubt inspired my father to create &ldquo;Tommy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Margo Hebald<\/p>\n<p>Renton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy the turtle &mdash; a childhood friend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":31054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31053"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}