{"id":1286,"date":"2011-03-11T19:05:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T19:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jpyro.com\/wp\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2011-03-11T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T19:14:15","slug":"dr-takeo-shimizu-1912-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"Dr Takeo Shimizu 1912-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/shimizu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1287\" title=\"shimizu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/shimizu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/shimizu.jpg 372w, https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/shimizu-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><\/a>It is with great sadness that we report the death of Dr Takeo Shimizu on 14th February 2011 at the age of 99 after a long illness.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Shimizu contributed more than anyone to the understanding of fireworks and their effects and contributed to many papers, some of which are available from this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?cat=35\">site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Shimizu was also a fascinating man and a great host &#8211; I had the pleasure of meeting with him on several occasions and he entertained me on a trip to Japan in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Smith<br \/>\nPublisher JPyro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we report the death of Dr Takeo Shimizu on 14th February 2011 at the age of 99 after a long illness. Dr Shimizu contributed more than anyone to the understanding of fireworks and their effects and contributed to many papers, some of which are available from this site. Dr &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=1286\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dr Takeo Shimizu 1912-2011<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}