{"id":200666,"date":"2026-03-21T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200666\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:00:11","slug":"orange-park-mall-says-spring-fling-carnival-will-not-open-saturday-due-to-unforeseen-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200666\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Park Mall says Spring Fling Carnival will not open Saturday due to &#8216;unforeseen circumstances&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mall spokesperson told First Coast News they were unable to comment on what led up to the cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>ORANGE PARK, Fla. \u2014 The Orange Park Mall has announced that the &#8216;Spring Fling Carnival&#8217; will not be opening Saturday due to &#8220;unforeseen circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook said there was a contract issue between the mall and the carnival, and that the carnival allegedly was &#8220;not following protocols as outlined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you for your understanding,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OrangeParkMall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">mall said on Facebook<\/a>. &#8220;We can\u2019t wait to see you at our other upcoming spring events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rumors had surfaced earlier this week of a possible teen takeover at the event.<\/p>\n<p>A mall spokesperson told First Coast News they were unable to comment on what led up to the carnival&#8217;s cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>A Clay County Sheriff&#8217;s Office spokesperson confirmed a shooting did not take place at the mall.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mall spokesperson told First Coast News they were unable to comment on what led up to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-200666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}