{"id":73574,"date":"2016-02-18T08:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=73574"},"modified":"2016-02-18T08:43:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:43:45","slug":"valentines-for-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/02\/18\/valentines-for-vets\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentines for Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Valentines-for-Vets-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Valentines for Vets 2016\" width=\"545\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Buckeye Y Youth Inc. hosted Valentines for Vets on Monday, February 8, at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5803 in Van Wert. The group made Valentines and colored bookmarks to be sent to the Veterans in nursing homes or Veterans Administration hospitals.\u00a0The VFW Auxiliary distributed awards to the children for \u201cRandom Acts of Patriotism\u201d. The color guard presented the colors and led the group in the \u201cPledge of Allegiance\u201d. A \u201cValentines for Vets\u201d cake and other refreshments were served to those attending. Buckeye Y Youth is a United Way agency and grant recipient from the Van Wert County Foundation.\u00a0<\/strong><em>(photo submitted)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckeye Y Youth Inc. hosted Valentines for Vets on Monday, February 8, at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5803 in Van Wert. The group made Valentines and colored bookmarks to be sent to the Veterans in nursing homes or Veterans Administration hospitals.\u00a0The VFW Auxiliary distributed awards to the children for \u201cRandom Acts of Patriotism\u201d. The [&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-73574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 11:37:36","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\/73574","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=73574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}