{"id":77877,"date":"2016-07-08T07:39:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T12:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=77877"},"modified":"2016-07-08T07:39:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T12:39:06","slug":"pigs-ready-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/07\/08\/pigs-ready-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigs ready to fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/When-Pigs-Fly-2013-VW-Ribfest.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77878\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-77878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/When-Pigs-Fly-2013-VW-Ribfest.jpg\" alt=\"When Pigs Fly-2013 VW Ribfest\" width=\"545\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Area residents are invited to join the United Way of Van Wert County at the 10th annual Van Wert Rib Fest for its \u201cWhen Pigs Fly\u201d event. Small plastic numbered pigs will be dropped from a ladder van donated by Dan Brandt of Wilkinson Printing. The drop will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, August 6. Two lucky winners will receive cash prizes: $500 for the pig that lands closest to the target and $100 to the pig that lands farthest away. Tickets are $5 each or five for $20 and can be purchased at the United Way office on Westwood Drive, from any United Way board member, or during the\u00a0Rib Fest. For more information, call 419.238.6689, email <a href=\"mailto:unitedway109@gmail.com\">unitedway109@gmail.com<\/a>, or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedwayvanwert.org\">www.unitedwayvanwert.org<\/a>.<\/strong> (<em>VW independent file photo)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Area residents are invited to join the United Way of Van Wert County at the 10th annual Van Wert Rib Fest for its \u201cWhen Pigs Fly\u201d event. Small plastic numbered pigs will be dropped from a ladder van donated by Dan Brandt of Wilkinson Printing. The drop will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, August [&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-77877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 13:31:36","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\/77877","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=77877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}