{"id":813832,"date":"2026-07-20T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813832\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:57:12","slug":"fifa-fan-festival-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813832\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Fan Festival Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the day at FIFA Fan Festival at Fort York (or is it The Bentway) and I was thoroughly impressed. Sure, the food and drink is overpriced, and the activities are loaded with crass commercialism, but it&#8217;s very well organized and we had a blast.<\/p>\n<p>Before the actually game there was a DJ set by Kardinal Offishall and DJ Starting From Scratch before Angine de Poitrine took the stage. I had to see what all the fuss was about, and it&#8217;s pretty mesmerizing. I loved it.<\/p>\n<p>And oh yes, there was a World Cup Final between Spain and Argentina. At least I think Argentina was participating. As games go, this was was a bit of a dog, but the best team won and a good time was had by all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I spent the day at FIFA Fan Festival at Fort York (or is it The Bentway) and I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-813832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}