{"id":88331,"date":"2017-05-25T08:08:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=88331"},"modified":"2017-05-25T08:08:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:08:45","slug":"free-smiley-park-childrens-programs-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/05\/25\/free-smiley-park-childrens-programs-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Smiley Park children&#8217;s programs set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Master Gardeners are offering three free educational programs this summer for children ages 3-10 at the Children\u2019s Garden at Smiley Park.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88332\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Childrens-Garden-promo-pic-5-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Mothers help their kids build birdhouses during a 2016 program at the Children\u2019s Garden in Smiley Park. (photo submitted)\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Mothers help their kids build birdhouses during a 2016 program at the Children\u2019s Garden in Smiley Park.<\/strong> <em>(photo submitted)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first program is \u201cSow and Grow\u201d and will be on Thursday, June 22. This program will teach kids how to plant a vegetable garden along with flowers.<\/p>\n<p>The second is \u201cWonderful World of Insects\u201d on Thursday, July 20. Guest speaker Curtis Young will teach children all about the fascinating world of insects.<\/p>\n<p>The last of the three programs is \u201cFruit of Your Labor\u201d on Thursday, August 10. Children will have a chance to make a healthy pizza out of ingredients from the garden.<\/p>\n<p>All sessions will be from 10-11:30 a.m. Each child will get a snack and water for the sessions and will be able to take home a project they completed from that day\u2019s session.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to register, call the Park Office at 419.238.9121 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/vanwertparksrecreation.weebly.com\/childrens-garden1.htm\">http:\/\/vanwertparksrecreation.weebly.com\/childrens-garden1.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information The Van Wert Master Gardeners are offering three free educational programs this summer for children ages 3-10 at the Children\u2019s Garden at Smiley Park. The first program is \u201cSow and Grow\u201d and will be on Thursday, June 22. This program will teach kids how to plant a vegetable garden along with flowers. The [&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-88331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 13:55:05","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\/88331","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=88331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}