{"id":187947,"date":"2024-12-29T22:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T03:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=187947"},"modified":"2024-12-29T22:30:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T03:30:20","slug":"year-end-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/12\/29\/year-end-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Year end game&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Keaten-Welch-12-28-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187948\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert guard Keaten Welch (above) sizes up a shot attempt against Ottoville on Saturday. Teammate Griff McCracken (below), launches a three pointer against the Big Green. The game went down to the wire after rallying from an eight point deficit, Ottoville held off the Cougars for a 45-44 victory. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Griff-McCracken-12-28-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187949\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert guard Keaten Welch (above) sizes up a shot attempt against Ottoville on Saturday. Teammate Griff McCracken (below), launches a three pointer against the Big Green. The game went down to the wire after rallying from an eight point deficit, Ottoville held off the Cougars for a 45-44 victory. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 16:35:38","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\/187947","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=187947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187953,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187947\/revisions\/187953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}