{"id":264123,"date":"2026-04-24T08:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264123\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:50:19","slug":"meet-michael-quintanilla-san-antonios-mr-fiesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264123\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Michael Quintanilla, San Antonio&#8217;s Mr. Fiesta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Quintanilla, \u201cMr. Fiesta,\u201d\u00a0won\u2019t let this year&#8217;s rain dampen his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/project\/san-antonio-michael-quintanilla\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">boundless Fiesta spirit<\/a>.\u00a0The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/lifestyle\/article\/fiesta-flambeau-grand-marshal-18639471.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">grand marshal of Fiesta Flambeau<\/a> once again emceed Fiesta\u2019s opening event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/article\/photos-fiesta-fiesta-2026-kickoff-travis-park-22208883.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fiesta Fiesta<\/a>. He&#8217;s also involved with the Fiesta WEBB Party, the Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas\u2019 Loter\u00eda para L\u00edderes event, and the Women\u2019s Club Fiesta Hat Contest and Luncheon, making him one of San Antonio\u2019s most outgoing Fiesta personalities.<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old is easily recognizable in his elaborate hats, this year unveiling one made of 1,234 colorful, plastic drinking straws.\u00a0Here\u2019s a closer look at the creativity, tradition and personality Quintanilla puts into the 11-day, citywide celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Quintanilla, \u201cMr. Fiesta,\u201d\u00a0won\u2019t let this year&#8217;s rain dampen his boundless Fiesta spirit.\u00a0The former grand marshal of Fiesta&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-264123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264123","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=264123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}