{"id":193261,"date":"2025-05-26T13:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=193261"},"modified":"2025-05-26T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:34:21","slug":"memorial-day-service-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/05\/26\/memorial-day-service-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day service&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Post-178-collage-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Post-178-collage-2025.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Post-178-collage-2025-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert American Legion Post 178 held its annual Memorial Day ceremony at Woodland Cemetery Monday morning (see story above). Pictured are Post 178 Commander Randy Matthews (top left), American Legion Chaplain Marc Rucklos (top right), a 21-gun salute and the Legion Riders presenting the colors. <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Legion-Riders-5-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193263\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert American Legion Post 178 held its annual Memorial Day ceremony at Woodland Cemetery Monday morning (see story above). Pictured are Post 178 Commander Randy Matthews (top left), American Legion Chaplain Marc Rucklos (top right), a 21-gun salute and the Legion Riders presenting the colors. Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/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-193261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 23:23:16","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\/193261","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=193261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193264,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193261\/revisions\/193264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}