{"id":210576,"date":"2026-09-27T07:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=210576"},"modified":"2026-09-27T07:08:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:08:49","slug":"heffner-earns-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/09\/27\/heffner-earns-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Heffner earns award&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Tony-Heffner-9-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210577\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Shelter Insurance agent Tony Heffner has received the Rising Star award, which recognizes new agents excelling in life insurance sales early in their career as an agent with the company. Heffner said he\u2019s thrilled to have earned the award and noted that life insurance is about protecting loved ones. Heffner\u2019s office is located at 1198 Westwood Drive, Suite D in Van Wert. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelter Insurance agent Tony Heffner has received the Rising Star award, which recognizes new agents excelling in life insurance sales early in their career as an agent with the company. Heffner said he\u2019s thrilled to have earned the award and noted that life insurance is about protecting loved ones. Heffner\u2019s office is located at 1198 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-23 07:17:14","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\/210576","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=210576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210578,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210576\/revisions\/210578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}