{"id":190188,"date":"2025-02-28T23:58:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T04:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=190188"},"modified":"2025-02-28T23:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T04:58:30","slug":"closed-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/02\/28\/closed-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Closed for good&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Big-Lots-closed-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190189\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>After a weeks-long clearance sale, Van Wert\u2019s Big Lots store closed its doors on Thursday. Signs on the front door Friday afternoon said the store was open to vendors only. According to a listing by Gordon Brothers, the firm that purchased all Big Lots stores nationwide in December, a lease for the Van Wert location is now available, indicating the store has closed for good. <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a weeks-long clearance sale, Van Wert\u2019s Big Lots store closed its doors on Thursday. Signs on the front door Friday afternoon said the store was open to vendors only. According to a listing by Gordon Brothers, the firm that purchased all Big Lots stores nationwide in December, a lease for the Van Wert location [&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-190188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 00:06:49","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\/190188","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=190188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190190,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190188\/revisions\/190190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}