{"id":208747,"date":"2026-08-10T21:47:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=208747"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:47:03","slug":"stormy-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/08\/10\/stormy-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormy night&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"320\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 568 \/ 320;\" width=\"568\" controls src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/August-10-2026-storm.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While heavy rain came down, frequent lightning lit up the sky Monday night. This video was taken outside the WKSD\/WERT radio studios on Mendon Road in Van Wert. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch was issued until 2 a.m. and several Severe Thunderstorm Warnings were issued for Van Wert County and the surrounding area. <em>Video by Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While heavy rain came down, frequent lightning lit up the sky Monday night. This video was taken outside the WKSD\/WERT radio studios on Mendon Road in Van Wert. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch was issued until 2 a.m. and several Severe Thunderstorm Warnings were issued for Van Wert County and the surrounding area. Video by Scott [&hellip;]<\/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-208747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 04:10:16","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\/208747","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=208747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208753,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208747\/revisions\/208753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}