{"id":205311,"date":"2026-04-27T21:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205311"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:25:22","slug":"wind-damage-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/04\/27\/wind-damage-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind damage&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/April-27-2026-wind-damage-II.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205312\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Strong winds rolled through Van Wert Monday evening and took down a couple of small trees and large branches. Traffic was stopped in both directions on S. Washington St. for several hours as a large tree limb came down and took down utility lines, and a medium size tree came down in the 200 block of N. Jefferson St. Van Wert County CERT assisted in managing Washington St. traffic around the blockage. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/April-27-2026-wind-damage-I.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205313\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strong winds rolled through Van Wert Monday evening and took down a couple of small trees and large branches. Traffic was stopped in both directions on S. Washington St. for several hours as a large tree limb came down and took down utility lines, and a medium size tree came down in the 200 block [&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-205311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 04:17:24","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\/205311","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=205311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205314,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205311\/revisions\/205314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}