{"id":49662,"date":"2025-11-28T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=49662"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:40:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:40:01","slug":"defiance-college-receives-4000-grant-for-campus-beautification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/defiance-college-receives-4000-grant-for-campus-beautification\/","title":{"rendered":"Defiance College Receives $4,000 Grant for Campus Beautification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"734\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DC-Beautification-Grant-Fall-2025-2.jpg?fit=666%2C734&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49663\" style=\"width:450px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Pictured with the award are Dr. Richanne Mankey, President of Defiance College, and Deb Hench, DAF grants committee member and Defiance College board member.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Defiance College has been awarded a $4,000 grant from the Defiance Area Foundation\u2019s (DAF) Community Fund as part of the foundation\u2019s fall grant cycle. The funding will support beautification efforts on campus, specifically by replacing four benches in the center quad area\u2014an improvement that will enhance both appearance and usability for students and visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defiance College has been awarded a $4,000 grant from the Defiance Area Foundation\u2019s (DAF) Community Fund as part of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DC-Beautification-Grant-Fall-2025-2.jpg?fit=666%2C734&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-cV0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 07:46:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49664,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49662\/revisions\/49664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}