{"id":3741,"date":"2010-07-05T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismancafe.com\/blogs\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2011-07-05T18:43:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T23:43:42","slug":"memory-lanterns-honor-service-men-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/3741\/memory-lanterns-honor-service-men-women","title":{"rendered":"Memory Lanterns Honor Loved Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3724\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bismancafe.com\/blogs\/bismarck-pictures-2010-4th-of-july-fireworks-celebration-at-north-dakota-state-capitol\/4th-of-july-2010-39\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3724 aligncenter\" title=\"Memory Fireworks Lanterns - 4th of July North Dakota Capitol Fireworks Celebration\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismancafe.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/4th-of-july-2010-39-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Setting Off Memory Lanterns\" width=\"464\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those glowing balloons hovering over the region weren&#8217;t UFOs. Sold by regional fireworks dealer Memory Fireworks, those brightly illuminated balloons hovering above at around 11:00pm last evening were Memory Lanterns launched to honor and remember loved ones, specifically those serving in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Memory Lanterns are small paper hot-air balloons with a small candle inside that, according to Memory Fireworks, can be seen for miles.<\/p>\n<p>Memory Fireworks first introduced the lanterns in 2005. Beginning in 2009, the fireworks dealer began donating $1 for each balloon sold to the North Dakota National Guard, amounting to just under $5,000 its first year.<\/p>\n<p>Related Pages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismancafe.com\/blogs\/?page_id=3699\">Bismarck Pictures: North Dakota Capitol 4th of July Celebration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those glowing balloons hovering over the region weren&#8217;t UFOs. Sold by regional fireworks dealer Memory Fireworks, those brightly illuminated balloons hovering above at around 11:00pm last evening were Memory Lanterns launched to honor and remember loved ones, specifically those serving in the military. Memory Lanterns are small paper hot-air balloons with a small candle inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[357,356,360,358,359,264],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-4th-of-july","tag-celebration","tag-honor","tag-memory-lanterns","tag-military","tag-state-capitol"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}