{"id":197630,"date":"2025-09-25T20:46:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=197630"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:46:35","slug":"strike-up-the-band-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/09\/25\/strike-up-the-band-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike up the band!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cougar-Pride-Marching-Band-9-2025-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197631\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert High School \u201cCougar Pride Marching Band\u201d will perform on Alumni Field at Eggerss Stadium tonight. The band will take the field for pregame festivities and will entertain fans at halftime of the Van Wert-Wapakoneta game. <em>Bob Barnes photo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert High School \u201cCougar Pride Marching Band\u201d will perform on Alumni Field at Eggerss Stadium tonight. The band will take the field for pregame festivities and will entertain fans at halftime of the Van Wert-Wapakoneta game. Bob Barnes photo<\/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-197630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 20:07:06","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\/197630","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=197630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197632,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197630\/revisions\/197632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}