{"id":193897,"date":"2025-06-15T20:59:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T01:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=193897"},"modified":"2025-06-15T20:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T01:59:05","slug":"no-kings-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/06\/15\/no-kings-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"No Kings Protest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/No-Kings-II-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193898\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert joined many other municipalities nationwide by holding a \u201cNo Kings Protest\u201d on Saturday. It began at Fountain Park at 1 p.m. and within minutes had moved to the 200 block of S. Washington St., both sides. There were 175 protesters and it was peaceful with some chanting. The Van Wert Police Department stopped a handful of vehicles (diesel smokers) when they would go through and fog the area with black smoke. It wasn\u2019t clear if they were cited or just warned to stop the harassment.\u00a0The protesters\u00a0returned to Fountain Park at 1:50 and by 2 p.m. most had left. <em>Bob Barnes\/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=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/No-Kings-I-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193899\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert joined many other municipalities nationwide by holding a \u201cNo Kings Protest\u201d on Saturday. It began at Fountain Park at 1 p.m. and within minutes had moved to the 200 block of S. Washington St., both sides. There were 175 protesters and it was peaceful with some chanting. The Van Wert Police Department stopped [&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-193897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 03:52:58","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\/193897","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=193897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193900,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193897\/revisions\/193900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}