{"id":927,"date":"2025-09-04T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/927\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:46:09","slug":"balloons-over-waikato-zuru-nightglow-to-return-to-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/927\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloons over Waikato: Zuru Nightglow to return to university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Gow said the festival would open with Zuru Nightglow in 2026, instead of closing with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Launching the week with such a major event, he said, would give pilots and balloonists the chance to perform at their best and deliver a show to remember.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">The event will remain free and ticketed, but the university\u2019s larger site will boost capacity and open the experience to more people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Shaun van Praagh, director of development and event services at the University of Waikato, said he looked forward to hosting the Zuru Nightglow back on the Hamilton campus in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis iconic event not only brings our community together in a unique and memorable way but also delivers meaningful social and economic benefits for the wider region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Organisers will fence the site to limit entry to valid ticket-holders and ensure a safe environment for wh\u0101nau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">More dates and ticketing details will follow later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gow said the festival would open with Zuru Nightglow in 2026, instead of closing with it. Launching the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,1522,1531,1535,111,139,1536,1526,69,1532,1523,1527,1534,213,1529,61,1528,1524,1533,379,1530,1525],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-balloons","tag-claudelands","tag-march","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nightglow","tag-nz","tag-oval","tag-over","tag-return","tag-saturday","tag-sports","tag-three","tag-to","tag-university","tag-waikato","tag-will","tag-year","tag-years","tag-zuru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}