{"id":62546,"date":"2015-04-08T08:03:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=62546"},"modified":"2015-04-08T08:03:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:03:34","slug":"oratorical-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/04\/08\/oratorical-contest-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Oratorical Contest winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Optimist-Club-Oratorical-Contest-winners-4-2015.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62547\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Optimist Club Oratorical Contest winners 4-2015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Optimist-Club-Oratorical-Contest-winners-4-2015.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The Van Wert Optimist Club has announced winners of its annual Oratorical Contest. First-place winners receive a gold medallion and $200 prize money and advance to the zone competition in Delphos. Second- and third-place winners receive silver and bronze medallions. Top finishers include (front row, from the left) include first-place girls contest winner Katelyn Welch and third-place finisher Samantha Hopkins (second-place winner Trinity Welch was not present for the photo); (back row) second-place winner Cal Wolfrum, first-place winner Noah Miller and third-place winner Travis Lichtensteiger. With the winners is Optimist Club member Greg Yinger. <\/b><i>(Optimist Club photo)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Optimist Club has announced winners of its annual Oratorical Contest. First-place winners receive a gold medallion and $200 prize money and advance to the zone competition in Delphos. Second- and third-place winners receive silver and bronze medallions. Top finishers include (front row, from the left) include first-place girls contest winner Katelyn Welch [&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-62546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 08:42:33","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\/62546","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=62546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}