{"id":9664,"date":"2008-06-20T00:04:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T07:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiren.wpengine.com\/news\/renton-fireworks-ban-is-draconian\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:55:40","slug":"renton-fireworks-ban-is-draconian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/letters\/renton-fireworks-ban-is-draconian\/","title":{"rendered":"Renton fireworks ban is &#8216;draconian'"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your article on June 14 entitled, \u201cA reminder: Fireworks banned in the city\u201d was terribly one-sided.  You cite the reduction of property damage and fire calls since the ban was enacted in 2005, but you say nothing of the tens of thousands of people who have had their celebration of their country\u2019s founding destroyed by this draconian ban.<\/p>\n<p>The city government (including the fire department) has forgotten the meaning of their role as public \u201cservants,\u201d and by publishing their propaganda unchallenged, you fail in your responsibilities as journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Garlough<\/p>\n<p>Renton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your article on June 14 entitled, \u201cA reminder: Fireworks banned in the city\u201d was terribly one-sided.  You cite the reduction of property damage and fire calls since the ban was enacted in 2005, but you say nothing of the tens of thousands of people who have had their celebration of their country\u2019s founding destroyed by this draconian 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}