{"id":42761,"date":"2013-09-09T06:42:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T11:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=42761"},"modified":"2013-09-10T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:06:00","slug":"42761","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/09\/09\/42761\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Air Fest over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hot-Air-Festival-2013-collage.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-42762\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"Hot Air Festival 2013 collage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hot-Air-Festival-2013-collage.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hot-Air-Festival-2013-collage.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hot-Air-Festival-2013-collage-550x387.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2013 edition of the Van Wert Hot Air Festival got off the ground in style, unlike 2012&#8217;s festival, when inclement weather grounded balloons the entire weekend. Balloons launched on Friday and, in fewer numbers, later in the weekend, while there were also a number of activities and vendors on the ground at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds for people to enjoy.<\/strong><em> (photos by Dave Mosier and Russ LaBounty for the Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 edition of the Van Wert Hot Air Festival got off the ground in style, unlike 2012&#8217;s festival, when inclement weather grounded balloons the entire weekend. Balloons launched on Friday and, in fewer numbers, later in the weekend, while there were also a number of activities and vendors on the ground at the Van [&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-42761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 03:26:44","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\/42761","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=42761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}