{"id":210449,"date":"2026-09-23T20:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=210449"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:30:20","slug":"local-democrats-gather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/09\/23\/local-democrats-gather\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Democrats gather&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Democratic-Party-dinner-9-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210450\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County Democratic Party held its fall banquet Tuesday night and former Governor Ted Strikland was the keynote speaker at the event. Shown above from left to right are Van Wert County Democratic Party Chair Kirsten Barnhart., Ted Strickland, Maddux McCray (running for Ohio House District 82 seat) and Joshua Kolasinski (running for Ohio\u2019s Fourth District Congressional seat). <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert County Democratic Party held its fall banquet Tuesday night and former Governor Ted Strikland was the keynote speaker at the event. Shown above from left to right are Van Wert County Democratic Party Chair Kirsten Barnhart., Ted Strickland, Maddux McCray (running for Ohio House District 82 seat) and Joshua Kolasinski (running for [&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-210449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-30 22:30:07","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\/210449","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=210449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210451,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210449\/revisions\/210451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}