{"id":444112,"date":"2026-09-22T14:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444112\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:52:53","slug":"gallery-plano-celebrates-47th-annual-balloon-festival-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444112\/","title":{"rendered":"GALLERY: Plano celebrates 47th annual Balloon Festival | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The skies over Plano filled with hot air balloons and music over the weekend at the 46th annual<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planoballoonfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> Plano Balloon Festival<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From Sept. 17-20, thousands of visitors gathered at Oak Point Park to watch pilots inflate more than 30 hot air balloons and enjoy live music performed by Ice House, vendor shopping and family-friendly activities. The event also featured exhibitions by the RE\/MAX of Texas Parachute Team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Special-shaped balloons included Yogi Bear, Tweety Bird, a unicorn, a raccoon and a llama. Other balloons promoted local businesses and causes, including breast cancer awareness. Fireworks shows were canceled due to a burn ban and replaced with a laser light show.<\/p>\n<p>The Plano Balloon Festival is expected to return for its 47th consecutive year in September 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The skies over Plano filled with hot air balloons and music over the weekend at the 46th annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[153341,727,119232,160,151278,162,161],"class_list":["post-444112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-47th-annual","tag-festival","tag-hot-air-balloon","tag-plano","tag-plano-balloon-festival","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444112","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=444112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}