{"id":74683,"date":"2016-03-23T07:56:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T12:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=74683"},"modified":"2016-03-23T07:56:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T12:56:01","slug":"essay-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/03\/23\/essay-contest-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay Contest winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Optimist-Essay-Contest-winners-3-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Optimist Essay Contest winners 3-2016\" width=\"545\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Van Wert Optimist Club recently held its annual Essay Contest honoring three Van Wert High School students during the club\u2019s March 17 meeting.\u00a0Michael Etter won first place and a $200 award.\u00a0In addition, his winning essay was submitted to the district level for further judging.\u00a0Second-place finisher Meghan Moonshower received $100, and third-place finisher Aaliyyah Ashbaugh was awarded $50.\u00a0Medallions and certificates were also presented.\u00a0Shown (from the left) are VWHS language arts teacher Nancy Brown; Etter, Moonshower, and Ashbaugh; Optimist President Brett Thatcher; and Optimist Essay Committee Chair Diana Cearns.\u00a0Judges this year were Bitsy Clark, Vicki Bidlack, and Kylee Moody.<\/strong> <em>(Optimist Club photo)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Optimist Club recently held its annual Essay Contest honoring three Van Wert High School students during the club\u2019s March 17 meeting.\u00a0Michael Etter won first place and a $200 award.\u00a0In addition, his winning essay was submitted to the district level for further judging.\u00a0Second-place finisher Meghan Moonshower received $100, and third-place finisher Aaliyyah Ashbaugh [&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-74683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 22:16:05","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\/74683","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=74683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}