{"id":195706,"date":"2025-08-08T21:51:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=195706"},"modified":"2025-08-08T21:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:52:23","slug":"block-party-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/08\/08\/block-party-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Block Party!"},"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\/08\/Block-Party-I-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195707\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Main Street Van Wert\u2019s Block Party drew hundreds of people to the downtown Van Wert area on Friday. Those attending enjoyed food from food trucks, vendors, a car show, a duck race with rubber ducks in Town Creek and the final Feel Good Friday concert of the summer, which featured boy band music by Boy Band Review. <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\/08\/Boy-Band-Review-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195709\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\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\/08\/Duck-Race-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195708\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main Street Van Wert\u2019s Block Party drew hundreds of people to the downtown Van Wert area on Friday. Those attending enjoyed food from food trucks, vendors, a car show, a duck race with rubber ducks in Town Creek and the final Feel Good Friday concert of the summer, which featured boy band music by Boy [&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-195706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-28 12:50:09","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\/195706","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=195706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195715,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195706\/revisions\/195715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}