{"id":261703,"date":"2026-04-22T21:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261703\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T21:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:09:10","slug":"rain-fails-to-dampen-fun-revelry-at-first-night-of-niosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261703\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain fails to dampen fun, revelry at first night of NIOSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revelers showed up for the first night of the four-night festival despite the damp, rainy weather that forced the cancellations of other Fiesta events this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Presented by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saconservation.org\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conservation Society of San Antonio<\/a>, NIOSA\u00a0celebrates the city\u2019s diverse cultural history through food, music and art. NIOSA has been a part of Fiesta since the 1940s, and has grown into one of its most popular events.<\/p>\n<p>NIOSA continues nightly through Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Fiesta, which marks its 135th anniversary this year, is an 11-day party that includes over 100 events benefiting various non-profit organizations. Fiesta was first held in 1891 with a single parade \u2014 the Battle of Flowers honoring the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fiestasanantonio.org\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fiesta 2026<\/a> kicked off Thursday and runs through April 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Revelers showed up for the first night of the four-night festival despite the damp, rainy weather that forced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[91995,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-261703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-fiesta26","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","11":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}