{"id":915510,"date":"2026-07-06T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/915510\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:38:09","slug":"fifa-fan-fest-in-dallas-paused-due-to-lighting-in-the-area-sunday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/915510\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Fan Fest in Dallas paused due to lighting in the area Sunday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers at the FIFA Fan Fest in Dallas&#8217; Fair Park paused entry on Sunday evening as lightning moved across the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those who were already inside the fest were advised to take shelter under the main stage viewing area or take shelter in their personal cars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Attention FIFA Fan Festival Dallas fans there is lightning in the area. We are temporarily halting entry.<\/p>\n<p>If you are in the venue, please take cover in the Main Stage Viewing Area or exit the festival to shelter in personal vehicles. Please standby for updates. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kAgR9b3j8X\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/kAgR9b3j8X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIFA World Cup 2026\u2122 Dallas (@FWC26Dallas) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FWC26Dallas\/status\/2073859160811118851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>North Texas was placed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/north-texas-dfw-forecast-weather-7-5-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Severe Thunderstorm Watch<\/a> Sunday afternoon. The watch expires at 10 p.m. Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organizers at the FIFA Fan Fest in Dallas&#8217; Fair Park paused entry on Sunday evening as lightning moved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":915511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,6995,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7160],"class_list":["post-915510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-lightning","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-weather-forecast"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116870952250321793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}