{"id":41148,"date":"2013-07-25T06:40:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T11:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=41148"},"modified":"2013-07-25T06:40:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T11:40:45","slug":"raft-race-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/07\/25\/raft-race-participants\/","title":{"rendered":"Raft race participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Three-Rivers-Raft-Race-photo-7-2013.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41149\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"Three Rivers Raft Race photo 7-2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Three-Rivers-Raft-Race-photo-7-2013.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A few \u201cgood ol\u2019 boys\u201d from Van Wert recently participated in the Three Rivers Raft Race during the Three Rivers Festival in Fort Wayne, Ind. The \u201cA-Billys\u201d (Alan Art, Andy Tracy, Adam Brower and Craig Black) successfully completed the two-mile course in a converted Chevrolet Astro van that looked suspiciously like the \u201cMystery Machine\u201d of Scooby-Doo fame. They received third place in their division. The A-Billys also thanked all their supporters, with special thanks to Ohio City Auto Salvage for lending them a \u201creally cool raft build.\u201d <\/b><i>(photo submitted)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few \u201cgood ol\u2019 boys\u201d from Van Wert recently participated in the Three Rivers Raft Race during the Three Rivers Festival in Fort Wayne, Ind. The \u201cA-Billys\u201d (Alan Art, Andy Tracy, Adam Brower and Craig Black) successfully completed the two-mile course in a converted Chevrolet Astro van that looked suspiciously like the \u201cMystery Machine\u201d of [&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-41148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 06:14:22","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\/41148","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=41148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}