{"id":25958203,"date":"2021-06-25T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakenona1stg.wpenginepowered.com\/lake-nona-pineapple-festival\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T10:30:07","slug":"lake-nona-pineapple-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/blog\/lake-nona-pineapple-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Nona Pineapple Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-ln-custom-text-block ln-custom-text-block\"><p>Summertime celebration brings a slice of island life to Lake Nona<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From midday to late night, the sights, sounds, and tastes of Puerto Rico filled the <a href=\"\/neighborhoods\/lake-nona-golf-country-club\/\">Town Center<\/a> as visitors and residents from across the region gathered for the first-ever Lake Nona Pineapple Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why pineapples? They grow best in tropical climates like Puerto Rico where the oceanfront community and bioluminescent bay of La Parguera hosts its annual Festival de la Pi\u00f1a Paradis\u00edaca \u2013 the inspiration for the Lake Nona Pineapple Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Puerto Rico, the festival celebrates all the flavors the fruit brings to the community\u2019s dishes, desserts, drinks, and dance!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"558\" height=\"660\" data-id=\"25959423\" src=\"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-25-at-11.33.59-AM.png\" alt=\"Lake Nona Pineapple Festival 1\" class=\"wp-image-25959423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-25-at-11.33.59-AM.png 558w, https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-25-at-11.33.59-AM-480x568.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 558px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"25959426\" src=\"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/197356347_2959739204272592_6001490241034055032_n-1229x1536-1-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Lake Nona Pineapple Festival 2\" class=\"wp-image-25959426\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Lake Nona, a line-up of vibrant live music, talented local artisans, and authentic food vendors brought the festival to life. After the sun went down, a first-of-its-kind light show inspired by La Parguera\u2019s bioluminescent bay illuminated the night with stunning visuals on <a href=\"\/community\/the-beacon-code-wall\/\">The Beacon<\/a> enhanced by live performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"25959432\" src=\"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image001-1152x1536-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Nona Pineapple Festival 3\" class=\"wp-image-25959432\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" data-id=\"25959434\" src=\"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image002-1366x976-1-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Nona Pineapple Festival 4\" class=\"wp-image-25959434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image002-1366x976-1-980x700.jpg 980w, https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image002-1366x976-1-480x343.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis event celebrated our Puerto Rican culture elegantly and inclusively,\u201d said Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Orlando President\/CEO Gaby Ortigoni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAttendees enjoyed every single minute. The feedback we have received is how proud people felt of this celebration and how so many small business owners and artisans were able to make profits they haven\u2019t had for almost two years. We look forward to working with Lake Nona again for this and other Hispanic events.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stay tuned for more community events in Lake Nona by following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/learnlakenona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@LearnLakeNona on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summertime celebration brings a slice of island life to Lake Nona<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25959420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_crdt_document":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[144,137,197,408,160,128],"class_list":["post-25958203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-community","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-fun","tag-lake-nona-town-center","tag-town-center"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25958203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25959420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25958203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25958203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25958203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}