{"id":59249,"date":"2014-12-31T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=59249"},"modified":"2015-01-01T01:41:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T06:41:53","slug":"59249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/12\/31\/59249\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring judge honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Judge-Steele-retirement-reception2-12-30-14.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-59256\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Judge Steele retirement reception2 12-30-14\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Judge-Steele-retirement-reception2-12-30-14.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Judge-Steele-retirement-reception2-12-30-14.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Judge-Steele-retirement-reception2-12-30-14-550x259.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Wert County Common Pleas Court Judge Charles D. Steele (front right), who retires today after 15 years on the bench, was honored Tuesday with a reception in the Common Pleas Courtroom. A large crowd was on hand to share memories with the judge, including Van Wert County Probate-Juvenile Judge Kevin Taylor and his wife, Kathy, and former Common Pleas Bailiff Dennis Kimmet, shown here with the judge. Judge Steele also received a surprise visit from former VWHS classmate Tom Dustman, who flew in from California for the reception.<\/strong> <em>(Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert County Common Pleas Court Judge Charles D. Steele (front right), who retires today after 15 years on the bench, was honored Tuesday with a reception in the Common Pleas Courtroom. A large crowd was on hand to share memories with the judge, including Van Wert County Probate-Juvenile Judge Kevin Taylor and his wife, [&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-59249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 03:47:29","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\/59249","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=59249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}