{"id":196795,"date":"2025-09-07T20:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=196795"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:46:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:46:34","slug":"pregame-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/09\/07\/pregame-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregame routine&#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\/2025\/09\/American-Leigon-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196797\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert American Legion Post 178 prepares to show the colors before Friday night\u2019s home football game between the Van Wert Cougars and Bath Wildcats. The traditional firing of the cannon took place after the Van Wert High School Cougar Pride Marching Band performed the Star Spangled Banner. <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=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/American-Leigon-2A.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196798\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert American Legion Post 178 prepares to show the colors before Friday night\u2019s home football game between the Van Wert Cougars and Bath Wildcats. The traditional firing of the cannon took place after the Van Wert High School Cougar Pride Marching Band performed the Star Spangled Banner. 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 17:24:06","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\/196795","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=196795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196799,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196795\/revisions\/196799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}