{"id":85255,"date":"2017-03-13T06:49:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T11:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=85255"},"modified":"2017-03-13T15:06:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:06:21","slug":"vw-peony-festival-information-provided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/03\/13\/vw-peony-festival-information-provided\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Peony Festival information provided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The special day of the peony flower has been the first Saturday in June since the late 1900s.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert County\u2019s peony farms, which grew many varieties of the flower seen as a symbol of romance, wealth, and respect around the world, helped earn the small city of Van Wert recognition as the \u201cPeony Capital of the World\u201d during the 1920, 1930s, and 1940s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Peony-flower-photo-4-2011-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Peony flower photo 4-2011 copy\" width=\"200\" height=\"194\" \/>Beginning in 1932, the Van Wert community has celebrated the flower that put the city on the map with a festival.<\/p>\n<p>The original Peony Festival included a queen and her court, a parade, and entertainment. The festival was put on hold during World War II and the early 1950s, but was restarted for a few years in the mid-1950s until 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Resurrected for the second time in the 1990s, today\u2019s Peony Festival still includes a queen and court, a parade, concerts, and now a car show, fishing derby, arts and crafts, bouncy houses, and food vendors during the three-day celebration.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s festival, to be held June 2-4, will also include a tent featuring Peony Festival history items, as well as a beer tent for the first time, following changes to a city ordinance banning alcohol sales on public property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent\/submitted information The special day of the peony flower has been the first Saturday in June since the late 1900s. Van Wert County\u2019s peony farms, which grew many varieties of the flower seen as a symbol of romance, wealth, and respect around the world, helped earn the small city of Van Wert recognition [&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-85255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 21:47:24","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\/85255","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=85255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}