{"id":5979,"date":"2011-05-20T15:24:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T22:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/statewide-ban-on-fireworks-needed-letter\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T20:15:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T03:15:31","slug":"statewide-ban-on-fireworks-needed-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/statewide-ban-on-fireworks-needed-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide ban on fireworks needed \/Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>In response to the letter (<a title=\"noise\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwlocalnews.com\/south_king\/ken\/opinion\/letters\/122272564.html\" target=\"_self\">&#8220;Noise at raceway a continuing problem,&#8221;<\/a> May 13):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Talk about noise, what about fireworks? I&#8217;d like to see a statewide ban, which only some cities have, why not the whole state?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Enough people have complained, not just me. Some people have to get up early to go to work, others have nerves and can&#8217;t handle it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Does anybody even care? What about property damage and a big mess left at the old Park and Ride? Do they ever get cited for littering?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>We worry about bombs and terrorists yet provide a place to buy ammunition, i.e. &#8220;Times Square bomber.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Funny how people complain about gas and food prices yet spend hundreds of dollars on fireworks without complaining.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I&#8217;ll spend my money wisely, thank you.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Patti Acheson<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong> Kent<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the letter (&#8220;Noise at raceway a continuing problem,&#8221; May 13):<br \/>\nTalk about noise, what about fireworks? I&#8217;d like to see a statewide ban, which only some cities have, why not the whole state?<\/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-5979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979"}],"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=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}