{"id":1821,"date":"2016-12-14T22:01:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T03:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2016-12-14T22:01:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T03:01:29","slug":"tema-bans-wind-and-fire-from-upcoming-earth-wind-fire-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2016\/12\/14\/tema-bans-wind-and-fire-from-upcoming-earth-wind-fire-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"TEMA bans Wind and Fire from upcoming Earth, Wind &#038; Fire concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) announced that it has banned Wind and Fire from the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/nooga.com\/174719\/earth-wind-fire-return-to-chattanooga\/\">Earth, Wind &amp; Fire concert<\/a> scheduled for March 15, 2017 at Chattanooga&#8217;s Memorial Auditorium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We can&#8217;t take any chances,&#8221; said TEMA representative Kelly Conpuro. &#8220;Wind and fire is a deadly combination, as we have seen with the Gatlinburg wildfires that spread rapidly due to high winds that were up to 87 miles an hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>For this concert, Earth, Wind &amp; Fire will be billed as &#8220;Earth, Wind &amp; Fire Minus Wind &amp; Fire&#8221; to reflect the change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This kind of preventative action is not unprecedented,&#8221; said Conpuro. &#8220;The Tennessee Department of Health banned Blood from concerts by Blood, Sweat and Tears during the &#8217;80s AIDS epidemic.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) announced that it has banned Wind and Fire from the upcoming Earth, Wind &amp; Fire concert scheduled for March 15, 2017 at Chattanooga&#8217;s Memorial Auditorium. &#8220;We can&#8217;t take any chances,&#8221; said TEMA representative Kelly Conpuro. &#8220;Wind and fire is a deadly combination, as we have seen with the Gatlinburg wildfires that spread rapidly due to high winds that were up to 87 miles an hour.&#8221; For this concert, Earth, Wind &amp; Fire will be billed as &#8220;Earth, Wind &amp; Fire Minus Wind &amp; Fire&#8221; to reflect the change. &#8220;This kind of preventative action is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}