{"id":639,"date":"2014-03-10T14:47:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T06:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2014-03-10T14:47:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T06:47:50","slug":"fireworks-launch-brown-universitys-250th-anniversary-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/fireworks-launch-brown-universitys-250th-anniversary-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks launch Brown University\u2019s 250th anniversary celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/03.jpg\" alt=\"03\" width=\"600\" height=\"412\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/03.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/03-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thunder ruled the sky over Brown University\u2019s College Green Friday evening, when the university punctuated the first round of celebrations on its 250th anniversary with a vigorous fireworks display that brought roars from the crowd that jammed the hallowed area.<br \/>\nAt one point flaming white numbers \u2014 the size of the four-story building on whose side the apparition appeared \u2014 spelled out \u201c250+\u201d. The blazing digits would appear again, at the climax of the display, this time in gold. From the roof, technicolor sparks hosed skyward \u00e0 la antiaircraft fire. The light show illuminated not only the clouds above, but the heads below.<br \/>\nConnie DiPanfilo, who watched the pyrotechnics from the shelter of Rogers Hall with her son, Nicholas, a student at Attleboro High School, said, \u201cNever,\u201d when asked if she had ever seen such a display. In fact, said DiPanfilo, who works in Brown\u2019s International Advancement Office, she had never seen any fireworks at Brown.<br \/>\nCollege Green became a mob scene long before the fireworks erupted. As a first-quarter moon loomed through a thin overcast, the throngs approached from every direction, having consumed every parking spot within a many-block area.<br \/>\nMany were clearly not Brown students. Parents brought young children who rode their shoulders.<br \/>\nA brilliantly lit stage formed a backdrop from which speakers spoke and performers performed. The clamor of the crowd was such however that nothing penetrated beyond 50 feet.<br \/>\nIt was a night for winter coats and wool hats. People carrying hot drinks from several tents that distributed food and beverages left small trails of steam behind them.<br \/>\nFrom a backlit, third-story building someone gazed down on the throng and did a respectable imitation of the pope appearing on the balcony at St. Peter\u2019s Square. The papal mimicker soon draped himself with a flag and danced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thunder ruled the sky over Brown University\u2019s College Green Friday evening, when the university punctuated the first round of celebrations on its 250th anniversary with a vigorous fireworks display that brought roars from the crowd that jammed the hallowed area. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/fireworks-launch-brown-universitys-250th-anniversary-celebration\/\">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":[62,52,48,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fireworks","category-fireworks-display","category-fireworks-news","category-21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}