{"id":597,"date":"2014-02-22T13:50:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T05:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2014-02-22T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T05:50:29","slug":"residents-hope-to-raise-private-funds-for-michigan-city-fireworks-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/22\/residents-hope-to-raise-private-funds-for-michigan-city-fireworks-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents hope to raise private funds for Michigan City fireworks display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0023.jpg\" alt=\"002\" width=\"983\" height=\"615\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0023.jpg 983w, https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0023-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 983px) 100vw, 983px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MICHIGAN CITY | A group of residents are banding together to try to bring back the fireworks in Michigan City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Save The Fireworks&#8221; is a grassroots effort to raise money to pay for the fireworks eliminated just recently from the city budget.<\/p>\n<p>STF member Linda Simmons said the group will meet for a second time next month at the LaPorte County Convention &#038; Visitors Bureau to keep the momentum going and invitations are extended to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great way for the community to get involved,&#8221; Simmons said.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Ron Meer citing financial constraints took the $50,000 for the fireworks out of the city&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons said that and the other decision by the mayor to hold the fireworks, if brought back, on the Fourth of July were the right calls.<\/p>\n<p>Fireworks annually has been held the weekend after Independence Day as part of the Summerfest activities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It draws a tremendous amount of people to the area,&#8221; Simmons said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MICHIGAN CITY | A group of residents are banding together to try to bring back the fireworks in Michigan City. &#8220;Save The Fireworks&#8221; is a grassroots effort to raise money to pay for the fireworks eliminated just recently from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/22\/residents-hope-to-raise-private-funds-for-michigan-city-fireworks-display\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,53,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fireworks-news","category-fireworks-show-photo","category-21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}