{"id":631,"date":"2014-03-07T12:45:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T04:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2014-03-07T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T05:00:42","slug":"city-signs-new-fireworks-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/07\/city-signs-new-fireworks-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"City signs new fireworks contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/0022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/0022.jpg\" alt=\"002\" width=\"704\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/0022.jpg 704w, https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/0022-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The city of Southaven expects to get more bang for its bucks with a new vendor for its annual July Fourth fireworks show.<br \/>\nThe Commercial Appeal reports that the board of aldermen approved Tuesday a contract with PyroFire Displays to provide the fireworks for its Independence Day celebration at Snowden Grove Park.<br \/>\nThe company will be paid $28,950 for what it calls an electronically and computer choreographed &#8220;high intensity&#8221; show \u2014 an $11,050 savings over last year&#8217;s display by American Fireworks.<br \/>\nThis year, the city advertised for bids and PyroFire provided the lowest bid of two companies to submit bids for the job. American Fireworks was the second bidder and its bid was $40,000, the same amount it charged the city last year for the fireworks show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Southaven expects to get more bang for its bucks with a new vendor for its annual July Fourth fireworks show. The Commercial Appeal reports that the board of aldermen approved Tuesday a contract with PyroFire Displays to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/07\/city-signs-new-fireworks-contract\/\">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":[62,48,64,53,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fireworks","category-fireworks-news","category-fireworks-rules","category-fireworks-show-photo","category-21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}