{"id":175542,"date":"2024-02-06T05:04:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T10:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=175542"},"modified":"2024-02-06T05:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T10:04:58","slug":"swearing-in-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/02\/06\/swearing-in-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Swearing in ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Doug-Edelbrock-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175543\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert Mayor Ken Markward swore in two new Van Wert Fire Department lieutenants during a ceremony held on Friday \u2013 Lt. Doug Edelbrock (top) and Lt. Zack Merkle (bottom). See story above for more details. <em>Bob Barnes\/VWFD photographer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Zack-Merkle-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175544\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Mayor Ken Markward swore in two new Van Wert Fire Department lieutenants during a ceremony held on Friday \u2013 Lt. Doug Edelbrock (top) and Lt. Zack Merkle (bottom). See story above for more details. Bob Barnes\/VWFD photographer<\/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-175542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 17:54:27","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\/175542","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=175542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175545,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175542\/revisions\/175545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}