{"id":6997,"date":"2014-07-30T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T23:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/city-needs-to-defuse-fireworks\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T19:30:26","slug":"city-needs-to-defuse-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/city-needs-to-defuse-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"City needs to defuse fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>After another disgusting &#8220;celebration&#8221; of our country&#8217;s Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, I am totally disappointed that the mayor and the City Council of Kent continue to support the use of private fireworks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Political leaders in neighboring cities (Renton, Des Moines, Federal Way, SeaTac, etc.) have recognized the cost to their taxpayers, the danger and worthlessness of private fireworks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Time for our elected officials to show similar political courage. There are better and far more appropriate ways of recognizing this important holiday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013  Rod Mack<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After another disgusting &#8220;celebration&#8221; of our country&#8217;s Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, I am totally disappointed that the mayor and the City Council of Kent continue to support the use of private fireworks.<\/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-6997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997"}],"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=6997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6997"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}