{"id":42705,"date":"2013-09-06T07:40:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=42705"},"modified":"2013-09-07T06:53:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T11:53:29","slug":"42705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/09\/06\/42705\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Air Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sepcial-needs-hot-air-balloon-ride-9-5-13.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-42706\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"2013 Hot Air Festival\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sepcial-needs-hot-air-balloon-ride-9-5-13.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sepcial-needs-hot-air-balloon-ride-9-5-13.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sepcial-needs-hot-air-balloon-ride-9-5-13-550x311.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Approximately 150-200 area special-needs residents got the chance to go on a hot air balloon ride Thursday evening at the Van Wert County Regional Airport. The special-needs groups were able to take balloon rides, thanks to a grant from the national Elks organization, while Elks Lodge 1197 in Van Wert provided snacks for the area residents (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/61372055@N02\/sets\/72157635401106529\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> for more photos from the event).<\/b> <i>(photo by Russ LaBounty for the Van Wert independent)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 150-200 area special-needs residents got the chance to go on a hot air balloon ride Thursday evening at the Van Wert County Regional Airport. The special-needs groups were able to take balloon rides, thanks to a grant from the national Elks organization, while Elks Lodge 1197 in Van Wert provided snacks for the area [&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-42705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 23:45:39","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\/42705","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=42705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}