{"id":209125,"date":"2026-08-20T20:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T01:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=209125"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T01:45:59","slug":"a-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/08\/20\/a-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"A look back&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Eggerss-Stadium_1936-construction-from-scrapbook-e1787251472488.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-147894\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>How Eggerss Stadium looked when it first opened in 1936 and a look at how it was in 2016. With the stadium renovation project nearly complete, it boasts many new features and improvements. <em>Scott Truxell\/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=\"177\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eggerss-Stadium-2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209127\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Eggerss Stadium looked when it first opened in 1936 and a look at how it was in 2016. With the stadium renovation project nearly complete, it boasts many new features and improvements. 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-209125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-28 03:33:12","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\/209125","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=209125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209128,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209125\/revisions\/209128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}