{"id":206737,"date":"2026-06-07T20:41:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206737"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:41:57","slug":"206737","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/06\/07\/206737\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Peony-festival-parade-6-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Peony-festival-parade-6-2026.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Peony-festival-parade-6-2026-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Peony-festival-parade-6-2026-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, the rain held off and the Peony Festival parade went on as scheduled on Saturday, with the Van Wert High School Cougar Pride Marching Band taking part in the annual event. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, the rain held off and the Peony Festival parade went on as scheduled on Saturday, with the Van Wert High School Cougar Pride Marching Band taking part in the annual event. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstory"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 14:41:25","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\/206737","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=206737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206739,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206737\/revisions\/206739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}