{"id":206212,"date":"2026-05-25T18:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206212"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:52:41","slug":"class-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/25\/class-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2026&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VWHS-grad-collage-III-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VWHS-grad-collage-III-2026.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VWHS-grad-collage-III-2026-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There were smiles and a few tears during Sunday\u2019s Van Wert High School graduation ceremony. The annual commencement exercise featured recognition of this year\u2019s graduates of distinction, music by the Van Wert High School choir, the presentation of diplomas, speakers and more. <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=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VWHS-grad-collage-I-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206213\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VWHS-grad-collage-II-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206215\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were smiles and a few tears during Sunday\u2019s Van Wert High School graduation ceremony. The annual commencement exercise featured recognition of this year\u2019s graduates of distinction, music by the Van Wert High School choir, the presentation of diplomas, speakers and more. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/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-206212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 15:02:04","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\/206212","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=206212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206216,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206212\/revisions\/206216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}