{"id":103392,"date":"2018-06-02T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T13:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=103392"},"modified":"2018-06-02T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T13:12:09","slug":"peony-fest-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/06\/02\/peony-fest-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Peony Fest opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Peony-Festival-ribboncutting-6-1-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Van Wert Peony Festival got underway Friday under cloudy skies (above) as Festival Committee President Vicki Schulte cuts a peony-themed ribbon to open the event while members of her committee and Van Wert Area Chamber of Commerce board members look on. Although a small rain shower occurred in late afternoon, that didn&#8217;t stop thousands of people (below) from coming out for the festival&#8217;s many attractions, including artwork and art activities, kids&#8217; games and rides, good food, and a great concert by Phil Dirt &amp; the Dozers that was the first concert of the Van Wert County Foundation&#8217;s 2018 Fountain Park Music Series <em>(see video below)<\/em>.<\/strong> <em>photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Peony-Fest-crowd-scene-6-1-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Peony Festival got underway Friday under cloudy skies (above) as Festival Committee President Vicki Schulte cuts a peony-themed ribbon to open the event while members of her committee and Van Wert Area Chamber of Commerce board members look on. Although a small rain shower occurred in late afternoon, that didn&#8217;t stop thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 05:48:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}