{"id":2329,"date":"2006-01-01T00:04:45","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T00:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/how-bizarre-is\/"},"modified":"2006-01-01T00:04:45","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T00:04:45","slug":"how-bizarre-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/how-bizarre-is\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bizarre is This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I live in Farmers Branch, TX. We had a wild fire on Tuesday — it wasn’t near my house, and while we’re in a very suburban area, I don’t worry about my house. Much. Especially since “we” water the park and we water our yard (both have sprinker systems).<\/p>\n

Anyway, get this — there is going to be a “public display of fireworks” shortly after midnight tonight in Dallas. Yep!<\/p>\n

And get this — it is for a wedding.<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal. They have a permit, and the city burn ban allows it. They also have a professional pyrotechnics unit doing it, and fire department standing by that they are supposed to be paying for.<\/p>\n

I’ll admit, I eloped. I eloped because I couldn’t see wasting money on one day. So I’m not ever going to get this at all, but still.<\/p>\n

It seems to me, if you were responsible citizens, you’d call off the firework, and take any money that you save by not having it and given it to a charity that helps the wild fire victims.<\/p>\n

But then I’m just too practical.<\/p>\n

And now I have another reason not to live in Dallas. <\/p>\n

Here’s the local news story: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I live in Farmers Branch, TX. We had a wild fire on Tuesday — it wasn’t near my house, and while we’re in a very suburban area, I don’t worry about my house. Much. Especially since “we” water the park and we water our yard (both have sprinker systems). Anyway, get this — there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}