{"id":209743,"date":"2026-09-05T00:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=209743"},"modified":"2026-09-05T00:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:40:18","slug":"rain-at-the-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/09\/05\/rain-at-the-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain at the fair&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Fair-rain-II-9-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209744\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It didn\u2019t last long but a brief heavy rain soaked the Van Wert County Fairgounds Thursday evening. Thunder and lightning accompanied the rain, sending most people running for cover. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It didn\u2019t last long but a brief heavy rain soaked the Van Wert County Fairgounds Thursday evening. Thunder and lightning accompanied the rain, sending most people running for cover. 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-209743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-12 06:19:46","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\/209743","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=209743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209745,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209743\/revisions\/209745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}