{"id":5326,"date":"2018-08-20T03:05:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T00:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2018-08-20T03:05:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T00:05:17","slug":"14-injured-after-storm-hits-backstreet-boys-concert-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/20\/14-injured-after-storm-hits-backstreet-boys-concert-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"14 injured after storm hits Backstreet Boys concert venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen people awaiting a Backstreet Boys concert Saturday evening at WinStar World Casino and Resort were injured after a storm caused part of a structure to collapse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/austingress15\/status\/1030956619478298625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Around 5:00 p.m.<\/a>, an outdoor coliseum for a Backstreet Boys concert with special guest 98 Degrees was evacuated due to an approaching storm, said Kym Koch, with WinStar World Casino and Resort.<\/p>\n<p>The casino says about 150 patrons who were standing in line for the concert &#8220;did not heed staff&#8217;s warnings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the casino, the storm knocked over concert entrance trusses with 70 to 80 mph winds around 5:30 p.m. WinStar says 14 people we treated at the scene and then taken to area hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The Backstreet Boys performance was postponed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tickets to the August 18 show will be honored at a new date,&#8221; the casino said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>koco.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen people awaiting a Backstreet Boys concert Saturday evening at WinStar World Casino and Resort were injured after a storm caused part of a structure to collapse. Around 5:00 p.m., an outdoor coliseum for a Backstreet Boys concert with special guest 98 Degrees was evacuated due to an approaching storm, said Kym Koch, with WinStar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":5327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5328,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions\/5328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}