{"id":199160,"date":"2025-11-05T21:47:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=199160"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:47:58","slug":"honoring-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/11\/05\/honoring-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring veterans&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-Flag-project-B-11-04-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199161\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As part of their Senior Capstone Project, Mrs. Switzer\u2019s senior English classes at Van Wert High School placed 300 flags at the entrance to the school campus to honor Van Wert County\u2019s veterans, active-duty forces, and first responders.\u00a0 Members of the VFW post 5803 Auxiliary were in attendance to pass out R.A.P. (random act of patriotism) cards and patriotic bookmarks. <em>Photos submitted<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-Flag-project-A-11-04-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199162\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their Senior Capstone Project, Mrs. Switzer\u2019s senior English classes at Van Wert High School placed 300 flags at the entrance to the school campus to honor Van Wert County\u2019s veterans, active-duty forces, and first responders.\u00a0 Members of the VFW post 5803 Auxiliary were in attendance to pass out R.A.P. (random act of [&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-199160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 08:48:39","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\/199160","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=199160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199163,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199160\/revisions\/199163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}