{"id":200802,"date":"2025-12-21T22:35:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200802"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:35:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:35:32","slug":"top-10-stories-of-2025-to-be-featured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/21\/top-10-stories-of-2025-to-be-featured\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 stories of 2025 to be featured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As 2025 draws to an end, the Van Wert independent will publish a series of articles recapping what it judges to be the top 10 local stories of 2025. The series will begin on Friday, December 26, with the No. 9-10 top stories, followed by the No. 7-8 top stories on Saturday, December 27. The series will continue on Monday, December 29, with the No. 5-6 stories, followed by the No. 3-4 stories on Tuesday, December 30, and the top two stories on Wednesday, December 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor As 2025 draws to an end, the Van Wert independent will publish a series of articles recapping what it judges to be the top 10 local stories of 2025. The series will begin on Friday, December 26, with the No. 9-10 top stories, followed by the No. 7-8 top stories on Saturday, [&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-200802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 22:44:34","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\/200802","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=200802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200803,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200802\/revisions\/200803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}