{"id":34726,"date":"2013-02-09T06:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T11:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=34726"},"modified":"2013-02-09T06:36:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T11:36:59","slug":"engineer-dept-retirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/02\/09\/engineer-dept-retirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineer Dept. retirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Engineer-Dept.-retirements-2-2013.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34727\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Engineer-Dept.-retirements-2-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Van Wert County Engineering Department lost two long time employees recently due to retirement.\u00a0 DD Strickler (18 years) and Dave Wherry (25 years) retired from the department on December 31, 2012.\u00a0 Strickler was a part of the county bridge crew, while Wherry supervised the sign, safety, and traffic division of the department.\u00a0Many past and present employees celebrated with Strickler and Wherry on their big day. Shown are (from the left) Strickler, Wherry, and County Engineer Kyle Wendel.<\/strong> <em>(photo submitted)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert County Engineering Department lost two long time employees recently due to retirement.\u00a0 DD Strickler (18 years) and Dave Wherry (25 years) retired from the department on December 31, 2012.\u00a0 Strickler was a part of the county bridge crew, while Wherry supervised the sign, safety, and traffic division of the department.\u00a0Many past and [&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-34726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 03:19:30","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\/34726","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=34726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}