{"id":35662,"date":"2018-07-06T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/we-spoke-loud-clear\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T16:30:00","slug":"we-spoke-loud-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/we-spoke-loud-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"We spoke loud, clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was absolutely flabbergasted to read in the Kent Reporter that Councilman Les Thomas wants to revoke the fireworks ban.<\/p>\n<p>Is he kidding? We have spoken loud and clear in 2015 by a vote of 62 percent to ban fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>What is Mr. Thomas&rsquo; motive here?? And then making a statement like: Why would we find someone $250 to light a sparkler? What an insult to all people whose houses burned down, fingers and hands blown off, eye injuries, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s more than just a sparkler, Mr. Thomas.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8211; W. Kurt Caesar <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was absolutely flabbergasted to read in the Kent Reporter that Councilman Les Thomas wants to revoke the fireworks ban.<\/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-35662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35662"}],"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=35662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35662"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=35662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}