{"id":16954,"date":"2011-11-26T02:38:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T07:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=16954"},"modified":"2011-11-26T02:38:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T07:38:37","slug":"santa-comes-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/11\/26\/santa-comes-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa comes to town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16955\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Santa-downtown-11-2011-with-Mayor-Ehmer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Santa Claus (above) was greeted by Van Wert Mayor Louis Ehmer on Friday morning as he rode into the downtown area on a Van Wert Fire Department truck. After greeting the mayor, Santa took some time to get Christmas wishes from a number of local children in The Hotel Marsh (below).<\/strong><em><strong> <\/strong>(photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16956\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Santa-downtown-11-2011-Santa-with-kids.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"380\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Claus (above) was greeted by Van Wert Mayor Louis Ehmer on Friday morning as he rode into the downtown area on a Van Wert Fire Department truck. After greeting the mayor, Santa took some time to get Christmas wishes from a number of local children in The Hotel Marsh (below). (photos by Dave Mosier\/Van [&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-16954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 02:06:57","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\/16954","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=16954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}