{"id":290257,"date":"2026-09-20T12:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290257\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:14:19","slug":"pittsburgh-renaissance-fair-canceled-for-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290257\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Renaissance Fair canceled for Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">SOUTH HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pittsburghrenfest.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pittsburghrenfest.com\/\">The Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival<\/a> has been canceled for Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Organizers say ongoing rain has \u201ccompromised\u201d most of the festival site and parking lot. That, mixed with the chance of more rain to come, resulted in their decision to cancel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe feel the conditions for our patrons\u2019 enjoyment just aren\u2019t where we would like them to be, and we cannot in good conscience open today,\u201d owner Jim Paradise said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Festivities are scheduled to resume next weekend and through the first weekend of October, which will mark the end of this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">For more information on the event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pittsburghrenfest.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pittsburghrenfest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 The Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival has been canceled for Sunday. Organizers say ongoing rain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25640,139,30641,859,73,75,74,120465,420,31075,860],"class_list":["post-290257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-addis","tag-news","tag-newton","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh_renaissance_fair","tag-video","tag-west","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290257","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=290257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}