{"id":16091,"date":"2014-07-09T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T21:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/a-frightening-fourth-lets-ban-fireworks\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:00:29","slug":"a-frightening-fourth-lets-ban-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/a-frightening-fourth-lets-ban-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"A frightening Fourth; let&#8217;s ban fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>It is time to ban fireworks in Kent. This past Fourth of July was like an arsenal around the corner from our house.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I would suggest that if people really enjoy mortar fire that they join some of the U.S. soldiers in Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Because of the direction of the wind, much of the debris blew into my back yard and my neighbors&#8217;. What really angers me is the amount of debris that landed on our roof. As a result, I will have to hire a company to remove it from the roof.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Although we are not in a high density development, our homes are still much too close together for such powerful explosives.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There are many ways to enjoy the Fourth: Lake Meridian puts on a great display; the Freedom Fair in Tacoma is a great family event with an airs show, rides for kids and fireworks; Emerald Downs has fireworks, or the ones in Seattle and Bellevue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Let&#8217;s keep our neighborhoods safe and ban fireworks in Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Mary Personette<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time to ban fireworks in Kent. This past Fourth of July was like an arsenal around the corner from our house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16091"}],"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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16091"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}