{"id":202593,"date":"2026-02-12T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202593"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:34:08","slug":"comedy-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/12\/comedy-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy play&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Barefoot-in-the-Park-II-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202594\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Civic Theatre\u2019s production of Barefoot in the Park continues tonight through Sunday. It plunges newlyweds into the hilarious chaos of their first apartment. The Neil Simon classic explores the clash of personalities, revealing the comedic struggles found at the early crossroads of marriage. Showtimes Friday and Saturday are at 7:30 p.m., while Sunday\u2019s show will begin at 2 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at <a href=\"http:\/\/vwct.org\">vwct.org<\/a>. <em>Bob Barnes photos<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Barefoot-in-the-Park-I-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202595\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Civic Theatre\u2019s production of Barefoot in the Park continues tonight through Sunday. It plunges newlyweds into the hilarious chaos of their first apartment. The Neil Simon classic explores the clash of personalities, revealing the comedic struggles found at the early crossroads of marriage. Showtimes Friday and Saturday are at 7:30 p.m., while [&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-202593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 21:14:42","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\/202593","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=202593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202651,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202593\/revisions\/202651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}