{"id":172040,"date":"2023-10-31T03:38:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=172040"},"modified":"2023-10-31T03:38:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T08:38:19","slug":"band-is-excellent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/10\/31\/band-is-excellent\/","title":{"rendered":"Band is excellent!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/VWHS-Marching-Band-OMEA-finals-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-172041\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For the second consecutive year, the Van Wert Cougar Pride Marching Band, under the direction of Bob Sloan, earned an \u201cExcellent\u201d rating at the Ohio Music Educators Association (OMEA) state marching band finals. The event was held at Alexander Stadium in Piqua on Sunday. <em>Photo courtesy of Dawn Sloan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second consecutive year, the Van Wert Cougar Pride Marching Band, under the direction of Bob Sloan, earned an \u201cExcellent\u201d rating at the Ohio Music Educators Association (OMEA) state marching band finals. The event was held at Alexander Stadium in Piqua on Sunday. Photo courtesy of Dawn Sloan<\/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-172040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 10:27:32","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\/172040","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=172040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172042,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172040\/revisions\/172042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}