{"id":1537574,"date":"2022-07-03T18:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T22:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1537574"},"modified":"2022-07-03T18:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T22:04:14","slug":"noem-wants-to-bring-back-the-july-4-fireworks-to-mount-rushmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/noem-wants-to-bring-back-the-july-4-fireworks-to-mount-rushmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Noem Wants to Bring Back the July 4 Fireworks to Mount Rushmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnoem-wants-to-bring-back-the-july-4-fireworks-to-mount-rushmore%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1537574&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The skies of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mount-rushmore\">Mount Rushmore<\/a> will not be filled with colorful fireworks this year, but South Dakota Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kristi-noem\">Kristi Noem<\/a> has not given up hope for next year.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. National Park Service (NPS) has denied the governor\u2019s request for the past two years. But Noem said, \u201cwe will not be deterred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Americans all across our great country make preparations to celebrate their Independence Day, we have once again been denied the opportunity to celebrate at our nation\u2019s enduring symbol of freedom, Mount Rushmore National Memorial,\u201d Noem said in a statement. \u201cWe have submitted a request for 2023 and will continue asking the Biden Administration to work with us to give the people the celebration they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NPS said in a March letter that the fireworks could damage the park and interfere with park activities.<\/p>\n<p>The light display would also create a \u201cclear and present danger,\u201d in terms of wildfire risks, NPS officials said in their letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally a fireworks event would likely require dedicated transportation for the visitors, as occurred in 2020,\u201d NPS officials said in their denial letter. \u201cIn the event of an emergency, evacuation would be hampered and pose a safety risk to attendees. Current trends indicate COVID is not a factor in denying the permit. It remains a source of uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fireworks would also interfere with programs planned by NPS, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The first fireworks in more than a decade happened at Mount Rushmore in 2020. Noem called Mount Rushmore \u201cthe best place in America to celebrate our nation\u2019s birthday\u201d in March and criticized President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, the President hypocritically held a fireworks celebration in Washington, D.C., while denying us our own event,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Kim Jarrett<\/em><\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-the-center-square\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<p> The Center Square was launched in May 2019 to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skies of Mount Rushmore will not be filled with colorful fireworks this year, but South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has not given up hope for next year. The U.S. National Park Service (NPS) has denied the governor\u2019s request for the past two years. But Noem said, \u201cwe will not be deterred.\u201d \u201cAs Americans all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":1894764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/noem-wants-to-bring-back-the-july-4-fireworks-to-mount-rushmore_4574465.html","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}