{"id":2677,"date":"2016-07-05T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/05\/pbs-caught-faking-fireworks-during-live-fourth\/"},"modified":"2016-07-05T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T16:45:00","slug":"pbs-caught-faking-fireworks-during-live-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/05\/pbs-caught-faking-fireworks-during-live-fourth\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS Caught Faking Fireworks During &#8216;Live&#8217; Fourth of July Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/pbs-caught-faking-fireworks-during-live-fourth-of-july-1783117948'>PBS Caught Faking Fireworks During &#8216;Live&#8217; Fourth of July Celebration<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Watching on TV last night, it was pretty obvious to us that very few of the fireworks shots were live given the very low cloud ceiling.\u00a0 After the initial couple of fireworks were shown, I was surprised that they decided to go through with fireworks at all, honestly. (For those of you that aren\u2019t from the area, the National Park Service had been mulling the cancellation of fireworks all weekend, delaying their decision to just before the show in a baffling bit of procrastination.)<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think this points to some larger conspiracy theory, but I\u2019m also a bit unhappy that PBS rationalized their choice (and lack of disclosure during the broadcast) as \u201cthe patriotic thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS Caught Faking Fireworks During &#8216;Live&#8217; Fourth of July Celebration Watching on TV last night, it was pretty obvious to us that very few of the fireworks shots were live given the very low cloud ceiling.\u00a0 After the initial couple of fireworks were shown, I was surprised that they decided to go through with fireworks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/05\/pbs-caught-faking-fireworks-during-live-fourth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PBS Caught Faking Fireworks During &#8216;Live&#8217; Fourth of July Celebration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}