{"id":5062,"date":"2014-11-03T10:11:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T10:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2014-11-08T09:15:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T09:15:32","slug":"the-pyromaniacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5062","title":{"rendered":"The pyromaniacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 10 years since <a href=\"http:\/\/3ca.org.uk\/\">Trinity Community Arts<\/a> first asked me to help with their then new annual fireworks party, which has taken place ever since. Only once in a decade has the event been badly marred by rain; that was in 2013 when the bonfire had to be lit and the fireworks fired in a steady autumn downpour.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in those 10 years, Emma from Trinity had the presence of mind to take a photo of the fireworks crew. Onj &#8211; the handsome chap in the red boiler suit &#8211; is the fireworks half of the crew. Your correspondent is in charge of the bonfire department.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5063\" style=\"width: 599px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/11\/trinity_fireworks_2014_small.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Woods and Sparkker Onj on site at Trinity 2nd November 2014\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/11\/trinity_fireworks_2014_small.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/11\/trinity_fireworks_2014_small-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture courtesy of Emma Harvey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was a truly great event this year with a good crowd of some 1,250 people, plus food and fantastic music (<em>you forgot to mention the spectacular fireworks! Ed.<\/em>). The event also raised &pound;1,100 for Trinity, which will go towards buying new drapes for the main hall. Your &#8216;umble scribe finally got home feeling very tired but happy at 11.30 pm after extinguishing the remains of the bonfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 10 years since Trinity Community Arts first asked me to help with their then new annual fireworks party, which has taken place ever since. Only once in a decade has the event been badly marred by rain; that was in 2013 when the bonfire had to be lit and the fireworks fired in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-oddities","tag-bristol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5088,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions\/5088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}