{"id":140859,"date":"2021-03-06T07:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T12:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=140859"},"modified":"2021-03-06T07:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T12:21:56","slug":"mardi-gras-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/03\/06\/mardi-gras-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras time!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/First-Friday-event-3-5-2021-Thompson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/First-Friday-event-3-5-2021-Thompson.jpg 580w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/First-Friday-event-3-5-2021-Thompson-550x447.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A number of businesses were open downtown on Friday for Main Street Van Wert&#8217;s Mardi Gras-themed First Friday event. Above, Weston Thompson entertained shoppers with jazz renditions on his saxophone while festive workers at Truly Divine (below) serve customers jambalaya, pulled pork Po&#8217; Boy sandwiches, and more.<\/strong> <em>photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/First-Friday-event-3-5-2021-Truly-Divine.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/First-Friday-event-3-5-2021-Truly-Divine.jpg 580w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/First-Friday-event-3-5-2021-Truly-Divine-550x417.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of businesses were open downtown on Friday for Main Street Van Wert&#8217;s Mardi Gras-themed First Friday event. Above, Weston Thompson entertained shoppers with jazz renditions on his saxophone while festive workers at Truly Divine (below) serve customers jambalaya, pulled pork Po&#8217; Boy sandwiches, and more. photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent<\/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-140859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 15:23:21","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\/140859","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=140859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}