{"id":1109208,"date":"2016-04-30T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/tribe_get_events-next-event-by-hour\/"},"modified":"2016-05-19T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T16:35:03","slug":"tribe_get_events-next-event-by-hour","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/tribe_get_events-next-event-by-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"tribe_get_events next event by hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to set up the code to display the next event by hour but it only seems to grab the event for the day.  <\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n\/\/ Retrieve the next event or meal<br \/>\n$specials = tribe_get_events( array(<br \/>\n\t'posts_per_page' =&gt; 1,<br \/>\n\t'tax_query'=&gt; array(<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tarray(<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t'taxonomy' =&gt; 'tribe_events_cat',<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t'field' =&gt; 'slug',<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t'terms' =&gt; 'cafe-day'<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t)),<br \/>\n\t'start_date' =&gt; current_time( 'Y-m-d g:i' ),<br \/>\n\t'eventDisplay' =&gt; 'custom',<\/p>\n<p>) );<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>As evidenced when I include<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\necho tribe_get_start_date();<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>How can I return the very next event by time specifically.  In my case, I am trying to establish a Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner feature that can happen all on the same day&#8230;but the only one returned is Breakfast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1109208","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>tribe_get_events next event by hour -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/tribe_get_events-next-event-by-hour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"tribe_get_events next event by hour -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am trying to set up the code to display the next event by hour but it only seems to grab the event for the day. \/\/ Retrieve the next event or meal $specials = tribe_get_events( array( &#039;posts_per_page&#039; 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