{"id":76170,"date":"2016-05-10T07:55:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T12:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=76170"},"modified":"2016-05-10T08:48:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T13:48:55","slug":"ownership-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/05\/10\/ownership-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ownership change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lees-Ace-Hardware-ownership-change-5-9-16.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76171\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lees-Ace-Hardware-ownership-change-5-9-16.jpg\" alt=\"Lee's Ace Hardware ownership change 5-9-16\" width=\"545\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Mercer has been coming to work at Lee\u2019s Ace Hardware since he was 17 &#8212; 27 years ago &#8212; but Monday was special because that\u2019s the day Mercer, who has managed the store for the past eight years, became the official owner of the business. Here, former owner Lee Krendl (in bright\u00a0blue shirt) congratulates Mercer, while family, friends, and store employees look on. Mercer said he doesn\u2019t plan to change the name of the 35-year-old business, which has been in its present location since 1995.<\/strong> <em>(Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Mercer has been coming to work at Lee\u2019s Ace Hardware since he was 17 &#8212; 27 years ago &#8212; but Monday was special because that\u2019s the day Mercer, who has managed the store for the past eight years, became the official owner of the business. Here, former owner Lee Krendl (in bright\u00a0blue shirt) congratulates [&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-76170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 21:42:12","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\/76170","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=76170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}