{"id":67266,"date":"2018-06-29T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67266"},"modified":"2018-06-27T21:50:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T02:50:15","slug":"ooooooh-aaaaaaaaah-wooooooooow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67266","title":{"rendered":"Ooooooh.  Aaaaaaaaah.  Wooooooooow."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>None of that will be heard cascading down from Mounds Park this July 4 &#8211; at least, not on the city&#8217;s dime.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Carter is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/st-paul-mayor-no-city-sponsored-fireworks-this-year\/568138041\"> declining to spend tax dollars on fireworks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mayor Melvin Carter announced on his Facebook page Wednesday that he would be scrapping the annual fireworks display, stating he believes there are better uses for tax dollars.<\/p>\n<p>In his post he writes, &#8220;As I\u2019ve considered the budgetary priorities we manage across our city in the first year of my administration, I\u2019ve decided I can\u2019t in good conscience support spending tax dollars on a fireworks display in Saint Paul this year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The budget hawk in me applauds &#8211; until he realizes that the Saint Paul City Councijl will find\u00a0\u00a0<em>much\u00a0<\/em>dumber uses for any money saved.<\/p>\n<p>More philosophically?\u00a0 I support the Mayor&#8217;s decision.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a patriotic American who believes in the ideals of the state that was founded in 1776; a celebration by a government that eschews those ideals, in favor of (at best) those of the Swedish or Danish (or Venezuelan) social welfare states is an appropriation of my culture.<\/p>\n<p>There.\u00a0 There&#8217;s your fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>(Although watching liberals heads exploding over the Kennedy retirement might just be a better display anyway).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None of that will be heard cascading down from Mounds Park this July 4 &#8211; at least, not on the city&#8217;s dime. Mayor Carter is declining to spend tax dollars on fireworks: Mayor Melvin Carter announced on his Facebook page Wednesday that he would be scrapping the annual fireworks display, stating he believes there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67276,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67266\/revisions\/67276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}