{"id":110135,"date":"2018-12-01T02:03:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T07:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=110135"},"modified":"2018-12-03T08:14:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T13:14:38","slug":"110135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/12\/01\/110135\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday lighting ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-110136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/City-Christmas-tree-lighting-11-30-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/City-Christmas-tree-lighting-11-30-18.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/City-Christmas-tree-lighting-11-30-18-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/City-Christmas-tree-lighting-11-30-18-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Wert Mayor Jerry Mazur turned the switch to light up the city&#8217;s Christmas tree in Fountain Park to culminate Main Street Van Wert&#8217;s Very Merry Main Street Christmas ceremony. Local musician Wes Thompson also entertained the large crowd gathered in the park, while Santa Claus took children&#8217;s Christmas wishes and Truly Divine and Brewed Expressions handed out free hot chocolate and goodies.<\/strong> <em>photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Mayor Jerry Mazur turned the switch to light up the city&#8217;s Christmas tree in Fountain Park to culminate Main Street Van Wert&#8217;s Very Merry Main Street Christmas ceremony. Local musician Wes Thompson also entertained the large crowd gathered in the park, while Santa Claus took children&#8217;s Christmas wishes and Truly Divine and Brewed [&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-110135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 06:22:39","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\/110135","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=110135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}