{"id":204728,"date":"2026-04-10T21:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=204728"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:09:34","slug":"new-exalted-ruler-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/04\/10\/new-exalted-ruler-4\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exalted Ruler&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/John-Ream-4-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204729\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert Elks Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks recently installed their new officers for the 2026-2027 Lodge year.\u00a0 John E. Ream was installed as the new Exalted Ruler for the Van Wert Lodge. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks are known for their promotion of Americanism, Drug Abuse Education and support of youth activities and our nation\u2019s veterans. Pictured are new Exalted Ruler John E. Ream\u00a0 and installing officer Past Exalted Ruler Matthew Krol. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Elks Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks recently installed their new officers for the 2026-2027 Lodge year.\u00a0 John E. Ream was installed as the new Exalted Ruler for the Van Wert Lodge. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks are known for their promotion of Americanism, Drug Abuse Education and support [&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-204728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 02:48:35","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\/204728","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=204728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204730,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204728\/revisions\/204730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}