{"id":134970,"date":"2020-09-12T05:25:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T10:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=134970"},"modified":"2020-09-12T05:25:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T10:25:49","slug":"vet-thanks-gibsons-bbq-for-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/09\/12\/vet-thanks-gibsons-bbq-for-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"Vet thanks Gibson&#8217;s BBQ for meal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>To the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the Van Wert County Fair took on a different look due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There was no Kids Day, nor a Senior Citizens Day or a Veterans Day. But again, this year, Gibson\u2019s Barnyard BBQ from Convoy provided free meals to all veterans on September 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You could drive-thru and pick up your delicious meal without even leaving your vehicle. Gibson\u2019s restaurant in Convoy has been closed to inside seating due to Covid-19, and his meals are served via the back door to drive-up customers. This has not been a financially good year for him, as well as other food establishments.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;However, this did not stop him from providing these meals to our veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On behalf of Van Wert County veterans I would like to say \u201cthank you\u201d to Gibson\u2019s for the outstanding meal provided to us again this year. Once this is over, I urge all veterans to be sure to visit his restaurant in Convoy and support him financially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you and God Bless America,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michael C. Stanley<\/strong><br><strong>Ohio Army National Guard (retired)<\/strong><br><em>via email<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: This year, the Van Wert County Fair took on a different look due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There was no Kids Day, nor a Senior Citizens Day or a Veterans Day. But again, this year, Gibson\u2019s Barnyard BBQ from Convoy provided free meals to all veterans on September 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You could drive-thru [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 18:15:52","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\/134970","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=134970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}