{"id":41262,"date":"2013-07-27T07:20:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T12:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=41262"},"modified":"2013-07-27T07:20:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T12:20:37","slug":"john-denver-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/07\/27\/john-denver-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"John Denver tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Ted-Vigil-Steve-Weisberg-in-Fountain-Park-7-26-13.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41263\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"Ted Vigil &amp; Steve Weisberg in Fountain Park 7-26-13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Ted-Vigil-Steve-Weisberg-in-Fountain-Park-7-26-13.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Denver (actually, Ted Vigil) was in Fountain Park on Friday to sing some of his favorite songs, along with backup singers and Steve Weisberg (above), a guitarist who performed with Denver during tours conducted in the 1970s. Denver&#8217;s popular songs, such as &#8220;Rocky Mountain High&#8221;, &#8220;Sunshine on My Shoulders,&#8221; &#8220;Thank God I&#8217;m a Country Boy,&#8221; and &#8220;Annie&#8217;s Song,&#8221; had the large crowd (below) singing along.<\/strong><em> (photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Ted-Vigil-concert-in-Fountain-Park-7-26-13-crowd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41264\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"Ted Vigil concert in Fountain Park 7-26-13-crowd\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Ted-Vigil-concert-in-Fountain-Park-7-26-13-crowd.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Denver (actually, Ted Vigil) was in Fountain Park on Friday to sing some of his favorite songs, along with backup singers and Steve Weisberg (above), a guitarist who performed with Denver during tours conducted in the 1970s. Denver&#8217;s popular songs, such as &#8220;Rocky Mountain High&#8221;, &#8220;Sunshine on My Shoulders,&#8221; &#8220;Thank God I&#8217;m a Country [&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-41262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 03:06:41","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\/41262","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=41262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}