{"id":43382,"date":"2013-09-24T06:35:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T11:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=43382"},"modified":"2013-09-24T06:35:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T11:35:39","slug":"coast-to-coast-walker-in-van-wert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/09\/24\/coast-to-coast-walker-in-van-wert\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast-to-coast walker in Van Wert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Van Wert independent news<\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43383\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Coast-to-Coast-walker-in-VW-9-23-13.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43383 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"Coast-to-coast walker Armand Young poses for a photo while in Van Wert. (photo by Gary Showalter for the Van Wert independent)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Coast-to-Coast-walker-in-VW-9-23-13.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coast-to-coast walker Armand Young poses for a photo while in Van Wert. (photo by Gary Showalter for the Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A coast-to-coast walker, Armand Young, was in Van Wert from Sunday to Monday afternoon. While here, Young attended the Van Wert County Historical Society\u2019s membership appreciation cookout on Sunday at the county historical museum.<\/p>\n<p>Young began his journey at \u201cGround Zero\u201d \u2013 site of the former World Trade Center \u2013 and traveled to Gettysburg, Pa., on the first leg of his trek.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t his first coast-to-coast walk, either. About three years ago, Young started on the West Coast and walked all the way to Ground Zero, also passed through Van Wert at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Young, who says he\u2019s \u201cchanging the world one step at a time,\u201d walks in support of American values and patriotism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent news A coast-to-coast walker, Armand Young, was in Van Wert from Sunday to Monday afternoon. While here, Young attended the Van Wert County Historical Society\u2019s membership appreciation cookout on Sunday at the county historical museum. Young began his journey at \u201cGround Zero\u201d \u2013 site of the former World Trade Center \u2013 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-43382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 02:17:24","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\/43382","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=43382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}