{"id":207978,"date":"2026-07-17T13:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=207978"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:26:55","slug":"smokey-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/07\/17\/smokey-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoky Friday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Downtown-VW-wildfire-smoke-7-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207979\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Smoke from Canadian wildfires was quite evident in downtown Van Wert late this morning. The hazy smoke shrouded other parts of the city and the county as well. An air quality alert remains in effect through tonight (Friday). <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke from Canadian wildfires was quite evident in downtown Van Wert late this morning. The hazy smoke shrouded other parts of the city and the county as well. An air quality alert remains in effect through tonight (Friday). Scott Truxell\/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-207978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 16:22:02","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\/207978","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=207978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207981,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207978\/revisions\/207981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}