{"id":152740,"date":"2022-03-31T03:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=152740"},"modified":"2022-04-01T03:37:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T08:37:20","slug":"152740","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/03\/31\/152740\/","title":{"rendered":"Play ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Play-Ball-VW-vs.-LV-3-2022-1-e1648802212604.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152741\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The umpire sweeps off home plate during Wednesday\u2019s season opener for Van Wert, as the Cougars hosted Division IV preseason No. 1 Lincolnview on a cloudy and windy day at Russell Fisher Field at Smiley Park. The softball team also opened the season at Jubilee Park against Lincolnview. Game results can be found on the Sports page. <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The umpire sweeps off home plate during Wednesday\u2019s season opener for Van Wert, as the Cougars hosted Division IV preseason No. 1 Lincolnview on a cloudy and windy day at Russell Fisher Field at Smiley Park. The softball team also opened the season at Jubilee Park against Lincolnview. Game results can be found on 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-152740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 15:33:30","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\/152740","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=152740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}