{"id":165098,"date":"2023-04-14T03:40:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T08:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=165098"},"modified":"2023-04-14T03:40:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T08:40:49","slug":"new-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/04\/14\/new-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"New officers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Ashley-Lovette-4-13-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165099\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert Mayor Ken Markward swore in the city\u2019s two newest police officers, Ashley Lovette (above) and Keaton Gillispie (below), during a ceremony held on Wednesday. Chief Doug Weigle said he\u2019s happy to add the two and he noted both have some experience and will fit in well. Lovette previously served with the Lima Police Department and Gillispie served with the Cridersville Police Department.<em> VWPD photos<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Keaton-Gillispie-4-13-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165100\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Mayor Ken Markward swore in the city\u2019s two newest police officers, Ashley Lovette (above) and Keaton Gillispie (below), during a ceremony held on Wednesday. Chief Doug Weigle said he\u2019s happy to add the two and he noted both have some experience and will fit in well. Lovette previously served with the Lima Police [&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-165098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 19:12:50","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\/165098","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=165098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165108,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165098\/revisions\/165108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}