{"id":4818,"date":"2015-11-23T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T00:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/why-the-delay-on-fireworks\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T17:35:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T00:35:41","slug":"why-the-delay-on-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/why-the-delay-on-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the delay on fireworks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>After the Kent voters overwhelmingly (66 percent) voted to ban fireworks, the City Council now wants to &#8220;study the matter further.&#8221; Really?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Why did they ask the voter for our opinion? How many complaints do they need to hear? Is there some other agenda they haven&#8217;t mentioned, such as lost tax revenue or someone else not making money from selling fireworks?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I find it difficult to believe other issues are influencing the council, such as not wanting to deprive us from our &#8220;right to explode things&#8221; as a way of honoring our country.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I am a veteran and I have no desire to hear something explode on July 4. And certainly if I did, I can see sane public displays everywhere.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I have written down the names of council members who are against the ban on fireworks, and I will use this as a guide for future votes. I know many other frustrated Kent citizens who are doing the same.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Gregory Honeycutt<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Kent voters overwhelmingly (66 percent) voted to ban fireworks, the City Council now wants to &#8220;study the matter further.&#8221; Really?<\/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-4818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818"}],"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=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}