{"id":185427,"date":"2024-10-28T21:03:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T02:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=185427"},"modified":"2024-10-28T21:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T02:03:58","slug":"band-earns-excellent-rating-at-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/10\/28\/band-earns-excellent-rating-at-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Band earns &#8220;excellent&#8221; rating at finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PIQUA &#8212; The Van Wert Cougar Marching Band is \u201cexcellent\u201d again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 45-member band earned the rating during the Ohio Music Educators Association\u2019s (OMEA) state finals at Alexander Stadium in Piqua on Sunday. The band went with a themed presentation called \u201cWelcome to Anytown\u201d which was described as a vintage space alien invasion show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The OMEA uses five ratings \u2013 superior, excellent, acceptable, poor and very poor. It\u2019s the third consecutive year Van Wert has been rated excellent by the judges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff PIQUA &#8212; The Van Wert Cougar Marching Band is \u201cexcellent\u201d again. The 45-member band earned the rating during the Ohio Music Educators Association\u2019s (OMEA) state finals at Alexander Stadium in Piqua on Sunday. The band went with a themed presentation called \u201cWelcome to Anytown\u201d which was described as a vintage space alien [&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-185427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 14:21:21","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\/185427","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=185427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185428,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185427\/revisions\/185428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}