{"id":42733,"date":"2013-09-07T06:52:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T11:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=42733"},"modified":"2013-09-09T06:43:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T11:43:33","slug":"42733","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/09\/07\/42733\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloons take off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hot-Air-Festival-2013-Balloon-launch-layout-9-7-13.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-42734\" alt=\"Hot Air Festival 2013-Balloon launch layout 9-7-13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hot-Air-Festival-2013-Balloon-launch-layout-9-7-13.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hot-Air-Festival-2013-Balloon-launch-layout-9-7-13.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hot-Air-Festival-2013-Balloon-launch-layout-9-7-13-550x262.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A number of hot air balloons get off the ground Friday evening as the Van Wert Hot Air Festival gets underway at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds. Today\u2019s activities included a Dawn Patrol balloon flight (inset) early this morning, as well as two other balloon flights, a balloon glow, entertainment by Todd Allen Herendeen and others, and a fireworks display.<\/b> <i>(photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of hot air balloons get off the ground Friday evening as the Van Wert Hot Air Festival gets underway at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds. Today\u2019s activities included a Dawn Patrol balloon flight (inset) early this morning, as well as two other balloon flights, a balloon glow, entertainment by Todd Allen Herendeen 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-42733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 22:16:02","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\/42733","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=42733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}