{"id":50075,"date":"2014-07-15T14:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T19:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=50075"},"modified":"2014-07-15T14:45:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T19:45:41","slug":"mlb-twins-apologize-loud-late-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=50075","title":{"rendered":"MLB, Twins Apologize, Loud, Late Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twonslogo1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1317\" alt=\"twinslogo\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twonslogo1.gif\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Major League Baseball and the Minnesota Twins are apologizing for post-midnight fireworks shot off after the All-Star Gala in downtown Minneapolis.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In a statement, MLB says the show was &#8220;louder and longer than what we were expecting.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The invitation-only event was scheduled to start after the Home Run Derby at Target Field. MLB says organizers had agreed to conduct a &#8220;light&#8221; fireworks display at midnight. But, the fireworks didn&#8217;t go off until nearly 12:30 a.m. Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Star Tribune\u00a0 says some residents who complained on Twitter used the hashtag &#8220;bragmnpls&#8221; set up by Mayor Betsy Hodges to encourage citizens to brag about the city.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;I bet your city isn&#8217;t setting off fireworks in the middle of the night,&#8221; one person tweeted. &#8220;Not sleeping. Not bragging&#8221; another post said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Major League Baseball and the Minnesota Twins are apologizing for post-midnight fireworks shot off after the All-Star Gala in downtown Minneapolis. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In a statement, MLB says the show was &#8220;louder and longer than what we were expecting.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The invitation-only event was scheduled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50076,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075\/revisions\/50076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}