{"id":66771,"date":"2015-08-11T07:52:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=66771"},"modified":"2015-08-11T07:52:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:52:41","slug":"when-pigs-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/08\/11\/when-pigs-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"When Pigs Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/VW-Rib-Fest-When-Pigs-Fly-8-2015.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66772\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"VW Rib Fest When Pigs Fly 8-2015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/VW-Rib-Fest-When-Pigs-Fly-8-2015.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>During the ninth annual Van Wert Rib Fest this past weekend, United Way of Van Wert County held its \u201cWhen Pigs Fly\u201d event. Board members Jessica Hardesty and Kirk Lichtensteiger (shown above with United Way Board member Marie Bennett (holding daughter dropped 500 plastic pigs over the fairgrounds, with the help of Ron Dull\u2019s Star Rental lift and Kyle Gehres and Troy Oechsle of the Van Wert Fair Board. The 2015 first place winner is Anita Smith, who won $500, while coming in second and winning $100 was Tom Gibson of Gibson\u2019s Barnyard BBQ. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who purchased a ticket.<\/b> <i>(United Way photo)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the ninth annual Van Wert Rib Fest this past weekend, United Way of Van Wert County held its \u201cWhen Pigs Fly\u201d event. Board members Jessica Hardesty and Kirk Lichtensteiger (shown above with United Way Board member Marie Bennett (holding daughter dropped 500 plastic pigs over the fairgrounds, with the help of Ron Dull\u2019s Star [&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-66771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 05:59:09","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\/66771","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=66771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}