{"id":1780,"date":"2023-05-29T07:28:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T12:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itparadise.net\/2021\/03\/29\/pokemon-go-fest-is-back-this-july-as-a-global-event\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:55:43","slug":"pokemon-go-fest-is-back-this-july-as-a-global-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Go Fest is back this July as a global event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"y8aulW\">The annual <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> Fest is back again this summer, scheduled for July 17th and 18th. Last year\u2019s event was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, instead of taking place in person in select cities around the globe. It sounds like this year\u2019s fest will once again happen virtually; developer Niantic describes the event as a \u201cglobal event.\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"F6Rc4S\">Niantic didn\u2019t share many other details, though it did tease that this year\u2019s event could be particularly noteworthy. \u201c2021 marks both the twenty-fifth anniversary of Pok\u00e9mon and the fifth anniversary of <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em>, so trust us when we say you won\u2019t want to miss <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> Fest 2021!\u201d Niantic said in a blog post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Time to mark your calendars, Trainers!  \ufe0f <\/p>\n<p>  #PokemonGOFest2021 will be a two-day global event from July 17 to July 18!   We can\u2019t wait to show you what\u2019s in store. https:\/\/t.co\/L0fcETooMj pic.twitter.com\/jljTUQBE1h<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pok\u00e9mon GO (@PokemonGoApp) April 27, 2021\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"fF0EfE\">Last year\u2019s online-only <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> Fest was a huge success, with \u201ca record number of millions of trainers\u201d in 124 countries and regions catching nearly a billion pok\u00e9mon in total, Niantic said after the 2020 fest. Niantic also said that players walked nearly 15 kilometers each on average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-read-more__intro\">\n    Related\n  <\/p>\n<h4>Pok\u00e9mon Go players caught nearly a billion pok\u00e9mon at this year\u2019s online-only fest<\/h4>\n<h4>Pok\u00e9mon Go Fest will be held online this year<\/h4>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Pok\u00e9mon Go Fest is back again this summer, scheduled for July 17th&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[59,38,57,61,58,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}