{"id":665,"date":"2012-08-03T11:42:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T15:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=665"},"modified":"2015-10-31T13:27:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T17:27:22","slug":"summer-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/summer-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1985, LaRonde has been hosting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationaldesfeuxlotoquebec.com\/en\/\">Montreal International Fireworks Competition<\/a>, also known as L&#8217;International des Feux Loto-Qu\u00e9bec.\u00a0 Tonight at 10pm is this year\u2019s finale.\u00a0 Every summer over the past few years, I have made the trip to go see them at least once.\u00a0 My favorite spot to view the fireworks is just outside the Longueil metro station; a lesser-known, quiet spot that is right across the highway from LaRonde.\u00a0 I had the opportunity to see the fireworks last Friday night and, as always, I was amazed by the spectacular light show.<\/p>\n<p>I recently found <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nPHegSulI_M\">this short video<\/a> about the chemistry involved in making fireworks that features Professor Conkling, the author of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-a&amp;find_code=WTI&amp;request=+Chemistry+of+Pyrotechnics&amp;request_op=AND&amp;find_code=WAU&amp;request=conkling\">Chemistry of Pyrotechnics: Basic Principles and Theory<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1985, LaRonde has been hosting the Montreal International Fireworks Competition, also known as L&#8217;International des Feux Loto-Qu\u00e9bec.\u00a0 Tonight at 10pm is this year\u2019s finale.\u00a0 Every summer over the past few years, I have made the trip to go see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/summer-fireworks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,15],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-chemistry","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4195,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/4195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}