{"id":206023,"date":"2026-05-18T20:45:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206023"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:45:46","slug":"car-vs-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/18\/car-vs-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Car vs. pole&#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\/05\/May-18-2026-accident-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206024\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This single vehicle accident occurred shortly after 4 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Crawford and Harrison streets, when a car collided with a utility pole at the intersection. The Van Wert Fire Department\u2019s EMS unit responded to the scene but no assistance was required. City police investigated the accident. <em>Bob Barnes\/VWFD photographer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This single vehicle accident occurred shortly after 4 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Crawford and Harrison streets, when a car collided with a utility pole at the intersection. The Van Wert Fire Department\u2019s EMS unit responded to the scene but no assistance was required. City police investigated the accident. Bob Barnes\/VWFD photographer<\/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-206023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 00:06:09","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\/206023","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=206023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206025,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206023\/revisions\/206025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}