{"id":51207,"date":"2014-04-30T06:52:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T11:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=51207"},"modified":"2014-04-30T06:52:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T11:52:49","slug":"rabbit-show-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/04\/30\/rabbit-show-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbit show winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Rabbit-competition-winners-4-2014.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51208\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Rabbit competition winners 4-2014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Rabbit-competition-winners-4-2014.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>This past weekend, things were hoppin\u2019 at the fairgrounds. The Van Wert Youth Rabbit Club and Van Wert Bunny Hoppers 4-H Club hosted their annual spring rabbit show. \u00a0This show is a nationally sanctioned show that brings exhibitors to Van Wert from the tri-state area. There were rabbits everywhere, representing the 47 sanctioned breeds from the American Rabbit Breeders Association. In the adult (open) division, the best rabbit of the day was John Platt\u2019s Champagne D\u2019Argent from Roanoke, Indi. \u00a0The reserve grand champion rabbit was Katelyn Welch\u2019s Havana from Van Wert. In the youth division, the best rabbit of the day was Gene Gillespie\u2019s Californian from Van Wert, while the second best youth rabbit was Brenna White\u2019s Holland Lop from Goshen, Ind. For more information and a list of upcoming rabbit shows go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arba.net\/\">www.arba.net<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanwertrabbit.org\/\">www.vanwertrabbit.org<\/a>. Shown with Judges Swartz and Adams are Youth Division winners (from the left) Brenna White (reserve champion) and Gene Gillespie (champion). <\/b><i>(photo submitted)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, things were hoppin\u2019 at the fairgrounds. The Van Wert Youth Rabbit Club and Van Wert Bunny Hoppers 4-H Club hosted their annual spring rabbit show. \u00a0This show is a nationally sanctioned show that brings exhibitors to Van Wert from the tri-state area. There were rabbits everywhere, representing the 47 sanctioned breeds from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-youth"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 02:50:22","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\/51207","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=51207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}