{"id":27140,"date":"2012-07-30T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=27140"},"modified":"2012-07-31T07:25:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T12:25:05","slug":"27140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/07\/30\/27140\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister City visit ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Sister-City-collage-Saturday-7-28-12.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27141\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Sister-City-collage-Saturday-7-28-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Sister-City-collage-Saturday-7-28-12.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Sister-City-collage-Saturday-7-28-12-550x401.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The visit from a delegation from Sumoto, Japan, Van Wert&#8217;s Sister City, culminated in activities over the weekend. shown are (clockwise from top left) Japanese students and local pilot Chuck Koch give the &#8220;peace&#8221; sign prior to an airplane ride on Saturday at Van Wert County Regional Airport, Japanese students perform prior to Friday&#8217;s Rhonda Vincent concert in Fountain Park, one delegation member is helped into Fred Fisher&#8217;s airplane, a Japanese boy demonstrates some dancing abilities during the Fountain Park performance, Japanese girls pose for a flowery photo at the Children&#8217;s Garden in Smiley Park, Japanese students at First United Methodist Church, and at Kennedy-Kuhn Agricultural Implement store.<\/strong> <em>(photos by Barb Laing and Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visit from a delegation from Sumoto, Japan, Van Wert&#8217;s Sister City, culminated in activities over the weekend. shown are (clockwise from top left) Japanese students and local pilot Chuck Koch give the &#8220;peace&#8221; sign prior to an airplane ride on Saturday at Van Wert County Regional Airport, Japanese students perform prior to Friday&#8217;s Rhonda [&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-27140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 23:12:47","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\/27140","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=27140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}