{"id":247297,"date":"2005-07-05T11:09:34","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T15:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/07\/exploded-fireworks-were-for-us-independence-day"},"modified":"2005-07-05T11:09:34","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T15:09:34","slug":"exploded-fireworks-were-for-us-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/07\/exploded-fireworks-were-for-us-independence-day","title":{"rendered":"Exploded Fireworks Were For US Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The explosion at Paradise Island on Sunday was caused by fireworks intended to put on a spectacular display at the US Embassy&#8217;s 4th of July celebrations last night.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>This was confirmed by US Embassy spokesman Mike Taylor.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;The embassy hired an outside contractot to put on a fireworks show tonight at the ambassador&#8217;s residence as a part of our 4th of July Independence day celebrations.&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The explosion shook Paradise Island and parts of downtown Nassau, sending up a huge cloud of smoke.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;It is my understanding that the contractor and the fireworks planned to display at the ambassador&#8217;s residence were involved in a fire at Paradise Island,&#8221; said Mr. Taylor.<\/p>\n<p><P><br \/>\nThe contractor would have been responsible for the purchase, importation, and storing of the fireworks until it was time for the display.<\/p>\n<p><P><SMALL>Source: The Tribune<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Embassy spokesman confirms that the explosion that shook Paradise Island involved fireworks intended for the 4th July celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}