{"id":2774,"date":"2016-02-24T16:42:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/thank-you-for-defusing-fireworks\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T21:05:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T04:05:38","slug":"thank-you-for-defusing-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/thank-you-for-defusing-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you for defusing fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Many thanks to our City Council for their decision to ban fireworks in Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>This decision has been a long time in coming, and we appreciate the council&#8217;s process of seeking input and listening to the community.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>With increased issues concerning public safety and well-being that have continued to multiply each year throughout the decades, this was a responsible and common-sense decision at an appropriate time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Bill and Carolyn Nirk<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to our City Council for their decision to ban fireworks in Kent.<\/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-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774"}],"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=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}