{"id":11733,"date":"2011-08-08T04:29:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T09:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=11733"},"modified":"2011-08-09T04:50:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T09:50:33","slug":"11733","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/08\/08\/11733\/","title":{"rendered":"Rib Cook-Off said successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/VW-Rib-Cook-Off-Collage-8-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/VW-Rib-Cook-Off-Collage-8-2011.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/VW-Rib-Cook-Off-Collage-8-2011-550x412.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Lots of people came out for ribs and Blues as the 2011 Van Wert Rib Cook-Off took place on Saturday at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds. Blues bands The Dogz, Scotty Bratcher and Tinsley Ellis entertained between the raindrops while plenty of ribs and a few cans of beer and soft drinks were downed during the event. Winners of the Rib Cook-Off are as follows: Best Sauce &#8212; Pork Brothers BBQ, first; Shigs in Pit, second; JAV&#8217;s, third; People&#8217;s Choice &#8212; Gibson&#8217;s Barnyard BBQ, first; Pork Brothers BBQ, second; Red Pig Inn, third; Judges&#8217; Choice &#8212; Pork Brothers BBQ, first; Red Pig Inn, second; Gibson&#8217;s Barnyard BBQ, third.<\/strong> <em>(photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people came out for ribs and Blues as the 2011 Van Wert Rib Cook-Off took place on Saturday at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds. Blues bands The Dogz, Scotty Bratcher and Tinsley Ellis entertained between the raindrops while plenty of ribs and a few cans of beer and soft drinks were downed during [&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-11733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 03:57:19","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\/11733","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=11733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}