{"id":196535,"date":"2025-09-01T20:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=196535"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:31:19","slug":"ribbon-cutting-set-for-new-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/09\/01\/ribbon-cutting-set-for-new-runway\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribbon cutting set for new runway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The extension of the runway at the Van Wert County Regional Airport will be celebrated during a ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for 11 a.m. this Saturday, September 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The longer runway, which was extended by 1,000 feet, taking it to 5,000 feet, allows bigger jets, including a Gulfstream 550, to fly into the local airport, rather than having to fly into Fort Wayne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff The extension of the runway at the Van Wert County Regional Airport will be celebrated during a ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for 11 a.m. this Saturday, September 6. The longer runway, which was extended by 1,000 feet, taking it to 5,000 feet, allows bigger jets, including a Gulfstream 550, to fly into [&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-196535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 22:19:01","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\/196535","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=196535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196536,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196535\/revisions\/196536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}