{"id":155797,"date":"2022-07-07T03:37:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T08:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=155797"},"modified":"2022-07-07T03:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T08:38:46","slug":"block-party-on-main","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/07\/07\/block-party-on-main\/","title":{"rendered":"Block Party on Main!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Duck-drop-7-10-2021-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-143925\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It won\u2019t be rubber ducks dropped into Town Creek this Saturday night \u2013 it\u2019ll be \u201cduck eggs.\u201d Thousands of ping pong balls will be emptied into the water for the Duck Egg Drop, which is replacing the annual Duck Derby as part of Main St. Van Wert\u2019s Block Party. The &#8220;duck eggs&#8221; will be dropped at 6:30 p.m. Other offerings include food trucks, a beer tent, vendors, kids activities, a Freedom Cruise, live music and the Van Wert 4 Mile. Saturday&#8217;s Block Party activities will begin at 4 p.m. For more information, check Main St. Van Wert&#8217;s Facebook page. <em>VW independent file photo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It won\u2019t be rubber ducks dropped into Town Creek this Saturday night \u2013 it\u2019ll be \u201cduck eggs.\u201d Thousands of ping pong balls will be emptied into the water for the Duck Egg Drop, which is replacing the annual Duck Derby as part of Main St. Van Wert\u2019s Block Party. The &#8220;duck eggs&#8221; will be dropped [&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-155797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 13:32:51","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\/155797","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=155797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155809,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155797\/revisions\/155809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}