{"id":190963,"date":"2025-03-21T20:58:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T01:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=190963"},"modified":"2025-03-21T20:58:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T01:58:56","slug":"rest-areas-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/03\/21\/rest-areas-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest areas open&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Convoy-rest-area-3-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190964\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The newly rebuilt rest areas along U.S. 30 eastbound and westbound in\u00a0Convoy are now open. According to ODOT District 1 Public Information Officer Cheri Newton, both buildings opened Monday, March 17. The old structures were demolished in January, 2024. The new structures feature a lodge-style design with everything under one roof, including larger restrooms with adult changing tables, a lobby area with vending and regional tourism information, an attached and covered outdoor picnic area, and landscape upgrades. <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly rebuilt rest areas along U.S. 30 eastbound and westbound in\u00a0Convoy are now open. According to ODOT District 1 Public Information Officer Cheri Newton, both buildings opened Monday, March 17. The old structures were demolished in January, 2024. The new structures feature a lodge-style design with everything under one roof, including larger restrooms with [&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-190963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 10:56:47","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\/190963","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=190963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190966,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190963\/revisions\/190966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}