{"id":192770,"date":"2025-05-12T22:09:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T03:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=192770"},"modified":"2025-05-12T22:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T03:09:34","slug":"hatcher-asked-about-poker-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/05\/12\/hatcher-asked-about-poker-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatcher asked about poker club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could a private poker club set up shop and operate within the Van Wert city limits?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During Monday night\u2019s meeting of Van Wert City Council, Law Director John Hatcher said he received an email from someone asking if such an establishment would be allowed in the city. He said he\u2019ll research the matter and report back to council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It appears private poker clubs are legal in Ohio. At least one is currently operating in the state. It\u2019s operating in Sandusky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor Could a private poker club set up shop and operate within the Van Wert city limits? During Monday night\u2019s meeting of Van Wert City Council, Law Director John Hatcher said he received an email from someone asking if such an establishment would be allowed in the city. He said he\u2019ll research the [&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-192770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 11:40:36","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\/192770","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=192770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192771,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192770\/revisions\/192771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}