{"id":74314,"date":"2016-03-12T07:20:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T12:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=74314"},"modified":"2016-03-12T07:20:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T12:20:31","slug":"oratorical-contest-winners-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/03\/12\/oratorical-contest-winners-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oratorical Contest winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Optimist-Oratorical-Contest-winners-3-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Optimist Oratorical Contest winners 3-2016\" width=\"545\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Van Wert Optimist Club held its annual Oratorical Contest Thursday, March 10, at Willow Bend Country Club. The Oratorical Contest features speeches given by students on a certain theme. Each year the theme changes, with this year\u2019s theme being \u201cHow Do I Bring Out the Best in Me\u201d.\u00a0Shown with Optimist Club member Greg Yinger are (from the left) Trinity Welch of Lincolnview High School, second place for girls; Courtney Cearns of Van Wert, first place for girls; and Calahan Wolfrum of Van Wert, first place for boys.\u00a0 Van Wert Optimist Club members meet weekly at noon Thursdays at Willow Bend Country Club.<\/strong> <em>(Optimist photo)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Optimist Club held its annual Oratorical Contest Thursday, March 10, at Willow Bend Country Club. The Oratorical Contest features speeches given by students on a certain theme. Each year the theme changes, with this year\u2019s theme being \u201cHow Do I Bring Out the Best in Me\u201d.\u00a0Shown with Optimist Club member Greg Yinger [&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-74314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 22:43:39","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\/74314","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=74314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}