{"id":6957,"date":"2015-10-28T16:07:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T23:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/safe-fireworks-are-harmful-too\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T20:45:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T03:45:33","slug":"safe-fireworks-are-harmful-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/safe-fireworks-are-harmful-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe fireworks are harmful, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I read with interest the articles supporting the sale and use of fireworks \u2013 both legal and those purchased on tribal land.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">In my view, there is little, if any difference between the two \u2013 both are problematic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Some of the worst fires have been the result of safe and sane \u201cBee\u2019s\u201d or \u201cJumping Jacks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">In my 35-plus years as a Kent firefighter, I can say unequivocally that there will be: 1. a structure fire as the result of fireworks; and 2. someone will be suffer an injury. These events are predictable and preventable.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Why do we continue to sanction such an outcome under the guise of patriotism?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><strong><em>\u2013 Terry McCartin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read with interest the articles supporting the sale and use of fireworks \u2013 both legal and those purchased on tribal land.<\/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-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957"}],"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=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}