{"id":159595,"date":"2022-10-31T03:48:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=159595"},"modified":"2022-10-31T03:48:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:48:02","slug":"cougars-are-excellent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/10\/31\/cougars-are-excellent\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars are excellent!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/VW-marching-band-10-30-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159596\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Cougar Pride Marching Band earned an \u201cExcellent\u201dat the Ohio Music Educators Association (OMEA) state marching band finals at Alexander Stadium in Piqua on Sunday. It was the marching band\u2019s first ever appearance in the state finals. <em>Photo provided<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Cougar Pride Marching Band earned an \u201cExcellent\u201dat the Ohio Music Educators Association (OMEA) state marching band finals at Alexander Stadium in Piqua on Sunday. It was the marching band\u2019s first ever appearance in the state finals. Photo provided<\/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-159595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 01:21:21","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\/159595","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=159595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159597,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159595\/revisions\/159597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}