{"id":9944,"date":"2019-07-04T15:13:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T22:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9944"},"modified":"2019-07-06T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T22:16:25","slug":"explosive-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/04\/explosive-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosive Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/expo.oregonlive.com\/news\/g66l-2019\/07\/82de1a29083345\/its-not-your-imagination-americans-are-shooting-off-more-fireworks-than-ever.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from Oregon Live (opens in a new tab)\">from Oregon Live<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"gallery82de1a29083345_title\">It&#8217;s not your imagination: Americans are shooting off more fireworks than ever<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By The Conversation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/expo.advance.net\/img\/c3a16fd9f8\/width960\/2c7_illegalfireworksapps.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>AP Photo\/Nick Ut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the eyes of many Americans, the Fourth of July is a day for parades, barbecues and, of course, fireworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tradition got its start at the beginning of our nation\u2019s history after the Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia to write and sign the Declaration of Independence. A day after the Continental Congress adopted the declaration on July 4, 1776, John Adams \u2013 soon the second U.S. president \u2013 penned a letter to his wife Abigail,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masshist.org\/digitaladams\/archive\/doc?id=L17760703jasecond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">declaring that Independence Day\u00a0<\/a><em>o&#8221;ught to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shews, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gurukul.american.edu\/heintze\/fourth.htm#Beginning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">One year later<\/a>, Philadelphia celebrated the anniversary with fireworks \u2013 or \u201cilluminations,\u201d to Adams \u2013 plus a parade commemorating Independence Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So with that in mind, here are four fascinating sets of facts about fireworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/expo.oregonlive.com\/news\/g66l-2019\/07\/82de1a29083345\/its-not-your-imagination-americans-are-shooting-off-more-fireworks-than-ever.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at Oregon Live (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at Oregon Live<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Oregon Live It&#8217;s not your imagination: Americans are shooting off more fireworks than ever By The Conversation In the eyes of many Americans, the Fourth of July is a day for parades, barbecues and, of course, fireworks. The tradition got its start at the beginning of our nation\u2019s history after the Founding Fathers met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}