{"id":209622,"date":"2026-09-02T06:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=209622"},"modified":"2026-09-02T06:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:49","slug":"fair-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/09\/02\/fair-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair underway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Fair-fun-day-1-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Fair-fun-day-1-2026.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Fair-fun-day-1-2026-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The 170th annual Van Wert County Fair got underway on Tuesday and it was a day packed full of various events and all kinds of fun. The fair continues today and it\u2019s Senior Citizens Day, with free admission for anyone 60 and over until 4 p.m. <em>Bob Barnes\/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=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Fair-fun-day-2-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Fair-fun-day-2-2026.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Fair-fun-day-2-2026-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 170th annual Van Wert County Fair got underway on Tuesday and it was a day packed full of various events and all kinds of fun. The fair continues today and it\u2019s Senior Citizens Day, with free admission for anyone 60 and over until 4 p.m. Bob Barnes\/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-209622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-09 12:19:01","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\/209622","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=209622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209625,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209622\/revisions\/209625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}