{"id":578,"date":"2008-10-29T07:40:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T07:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jpyro.com\/wp\/?p=578"},"modified":"2008-10-29T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T10:30:12","slug":"fireplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Fireplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>David Howard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> &lsquo;&lsquo;Fireplay&rsquo;&rsquo; is a generalist overview of pyrotechnics. It is indebted (and acknowledges its debt) to seminal works such as Brock&rsquo;s &lsquo;&lsquo;History of Pyrotechnics&rsquo;&rsquo; (1949), yet develops an aesthetic &ndash; even metaphysical &ndash; discussion of the key question for our profession: &lsquo;Why do fireworks move people?&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> History, aesthetics, gunpowder<\/p>\n<p> <font color=\"#ff0000\"><u><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/u><\/font><strong>Ref:<\/strong> JPyro, Issue 27, 2008, pp50-59<br \/> (J27_50)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Howard Abstract: &lsquo;&lsquo;Fireplay&rsquo;&rsquo; is a generalist overview of pyrotechnics. It is indebted (and acknowledges its debt) to seminal works such as Brock&rsquo;s &lsquo;&lsquo;History of Pyrotechnics&rsquo;&rsquo; (1949), yet develops an aesthetic &ndash; even metaphysical &ndash; discussion of the key question for our profession: &lsquo;Why do fireworks move people?&rsquo; Keywords: History, aesthetics, gunpowder Ref: JPyro, Issue &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=578\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fireplay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578"}],"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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}