{"id":205813,"date":"2026-05-12T21:13:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205813"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:13:53","slug":"career-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/12\/career-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Connections&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Career-Connections-1-2026-e1778634422982.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205798\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Fifth graders from Van Wert, Crestview, Lincolnview and St. Mary\u2019s of the Assumption School gathered at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds on Tuesday for Career Connections of Van Wert County\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Get Down to Business\u201d event. The interactive event allowed the students to explore businesses and careers through a series of hands-on learning stations and engaging displays.<em> Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth graders from Van Wert, Crestview, Lincolnview and St. Mary\u2019s of the Assumption School gathered at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds on Tuesday for Career Connections of Van Wert County\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Get Down to Business\u201d event. The interactive event allowed the students to explore businesses and careers through a series of hands-on learning stations and [&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-205813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-20 01:36:40","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\/205813","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=205813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205814,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205813\/revisions\/205814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}