{"id":204065,"date":"2026-03-22T20:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=204065"},"modified":"2026-03-22T20:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:43:07","slug":"scholarship-essay-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/03\/22\/scholarship-essay-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarship essay winners&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VOD-winners.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204066\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>VFW Post 5803 of Van Wert has named this year\u2019s scholarship essay winners. Voice of Democracy winners are (above, left to right): Caroline Haggerty (first place), Carley Chiles (second place), and Allison Geib (third place). Chiles was also the second place winner at the District 2 level. Pictured below are Karen Germann (Crestview sixth grade social studies teacher) and Patriots Penn winners Gatlin Ortiz (third place), Maxx Linton (first place), and Avery Owens (second place). <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=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Crestview-PP-winners.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204067\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VFW Post 5803 of Van Wert has named this year\u2019s scholarship essay winners. Voice of Democracy winners are (above, left to right): Caroline Haggerty (first place), Carley Chiles (second place), and Allison Geib (third place). Chiles was also the second place winner at the District 2 level. Pictured below are Karen Germann (Crestview sixth grade [&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-204065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-27 00:21:03","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\/204065","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=204065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204068,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204065\/revisions\/204068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}