{"id":412089,"date":"2026-07-25T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412089\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T16:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:17:08","slug":"san-jose-draws-1-million-downtown-visitors-during-2026-fifa-world-cup-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412089\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose draws 1 million downtown visitors during 2026 FIFA World Cup, mayor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2026 FIFA World Cup brought 1 million people to downtown San Jose over six weeks, Mayor Matt Mahan said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/2026\/07\/04\/san-jose-world-cup-watch-parties-added-due-to-high-demand\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/2026\/07\/04\/san-jose-world-cup-watch-parties-added-due-to-high-demand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch parties<\/a>, fan activities and community celebrations \u201ccreated a landmark stretch for the restaurants, bars and small businesses that call the downtown pedestrian district home,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly roundup in your inbox. <\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 FIFA World Cup brought 1 million people to downtown San Jose over six weeks, Mayor Matt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4978,11190,84319,28033,88,90,89,198,1083,127,146754,5277,67857],"class_list":["post-412089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-downtown-san-jose","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-mineta-san-jose-international-airport","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-sports-and-entertainment","tag-tourism","tag-watch-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}