{"id":208219,"date":"2026-07-24T20:33:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=208219"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:33:55","slug":"208219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/07\/24\/208219\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Block-Party-3-7-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Block-Party-3-7-2026.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Block-Party-3-7-2026-550x332.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Block-Party-3-7-2026-768x464.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Downtown Van Wert was hopping Friday night thanks to a nice summer evening, Main Street Van Wert\u2019s Block Party and Van Wert Live\u2019s final Free Good Friday concert of the season. Hundreds of people flocked to the Jefferson St. to grab food from one of several food trucks and to hear The Dave Matthews Tribute Band perform at Fountain Park. There were vendors at the park, a kids zone, the always popular duck race and a car show along two blocks of West Main St. and some of Jefferson St. <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown Van Wert was hopping Friday night thanks to a nice summer evening, Main Street Van Wert\u2019s Block Party and Van Wert Live\u2019s final Free Good Friday concert of the season. Hundreds of people flocked to the Jefferson St. to grab food from one of several food trucks and to hear The Dave Matthews Tribute [&hellip;]<\/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-208219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstory"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 16:15:14","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\/208219","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=208219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208222,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208219\/revisions\/208222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}