{"id":9,"date":"2007-09-03T12:12:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T12:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-09-04T22:02:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T22:02:06","slug":"fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watched the fireworks from Princes St this year, with music provided by Forth 1 and the radio in my phone. Impressive as always, and it’s been a few years since I watched from the ‘front’, and hence witnessed the full waterfall glory – which remains absolutely stunning. Barber’s Adagio for Strings was excellent, although a tricky piece to set fireworks to – I think I enjoyed it more than everyone else.<\/p>\n

The finale was John Philip Sousa’s Liberty Bell march, which is a fun piece of music, entirely suitable for being accompanied by explosions. Its fame stems in part from its use as the theme tune for a rather silly comedy show<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watched the fireworks from Princes St this year, with music provided by Forth 1 and the radio in my phone. Impressive as always, and it’s been a few years since I watched from the ‘front’, and hence witnessed the full waterfall glory – which remains absolutely stunning. Barber’s Adagio for Strings was excellent, although a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}