{"id":143902,"date":"2021-07-17T06:10:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T11:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=143902"},"modified":"2021-07-17T06:10:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T11:10:03","slug":"essay-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/07\/17\/essay-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Optimist-Club-winners-7-16-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-143901\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Winners of the Optimist Club of Van Wert\u2019s annual essay contest and their families were honored during a luncheon held at Willow Bend Country Club on Thursday. This year\u2019s theme was \u201cReaching Your Dreams by Choosing Optimism.\u201d All three winners were from Van Wert High School. Brooklynn Laukhuf (left) placed first and received a $300 scholarship, medal and certificate. Liesel Lare (not pictured) placed second received a $150 scholarship, medal and certificate, and Mia Kelley (right) placed third and received a $50 scholarship, medal and certificate. Also pictured is Optimist Club President Bruce Showalter. <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winners of the Optimist Club of Van Wert\u2019s annual essay contest and their families were honored during a luncheon held at Willow Bend Country Club on Thursday. This year\u2019s theme was \u201cReaching Your Dreams by Choosing Optimism.\u201d All three winners were from Van Wert High School. Brooklynn Laukhuf (left) placed first and received a $300 [&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-143902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 22:16:10","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\/143902","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=143902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}