{"id":91164,"date":"2017-08-05T07:54:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T12:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=91164"},"modified":"2017-08-05T08:06:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:06:13","slug":"piggin-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/08\/05\/piggin-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Piggin&#8217; out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Rib Eating contest at VW Rib Fest 2017\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u9Nmp7UpfQ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The United Way of Van Wert County held its first-ever rib-eating contest at this year\u2019s Van Wert Rib Fest on Friday <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-91165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Rib-Eating-contest-at-VW-Rib-Fest-2017-Jeff-Farmer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"163\" \/>evening. Representatives of six area schools: Van Wert, Crestview, Lincolnview, Vantage, Wayne Trace, and Parkway competed to see who could eat the most ribs in five minutes. Winner\u00a0<\/strong><strong>of this year\u2019s event was Jeff Farmer of Parkway (right), who nearly cleaned up two slabs of ribs in the time allowed. Winning $100 for having the loudest supporters was Van Wert City Schools.<\/strong> <em>video by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Way of Van Wert County held its first-ever rib-eating contest at this year\u2019s Van Wert Rib Fest on Friday evening. Representatives of six area schools: Van Wert, Crestview, Lincolnview, Vantage, Wayne Trace, and Parkway competed to see who could eat the most ribs in five minutes. Winner\u00a0of this year\u2019s event was Jeff Farmer [&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-91164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 10:56:17","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\/91164","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=91164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}