{"id":264731,"date":"2026-08-13T18:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264731\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T18:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:22:13","slug":"italian-festival-starts-thursday-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264731\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian festival starts Thursday in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 26th annual Bloomfield Little Italy Days Festival gets going Thursday at 5 p.m. and continues through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s festival will have a celebrity bocce tournament Thursday at 6 p.m., and will feature local sports and media personalities and politicians. Live music will be part of the festival over its four days, including Frank Sinatra and Earth, Wind and Fire tribute acts. There will also be lots of Italian cuisine and wines to sample.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will be on Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh\u2019s Bloomfield neighborhood. For information, go online to www.littleitalydays.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 26th annual Bloomfield Little Italy Days Festival gets going Thursday at 5 p.m. and continues through Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7715,110665,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-264731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bloomfield","tag-italian-festival","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}