{"id":198618,"date":"2025-10-21T20:42:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=198618"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:40:41","slug":"198618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/10\/21\/198618\/","title":{"rendered":"Season finale Friday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Van-Wert-Cougars-10-2025-e1761158419967.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198619\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Cougars will come out of the tunnel one more time this season. The Cougars will host Kenton in the season finale at 7 p.m. Friday, and the 2000 state runner-up team will be recognized that night. For a game preview story, along with a preview of Crestview vs. Lima Central Catholic, check the Sports page. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Cougars will come out of the tunnel one more time this season. The Cougars will host Kenton in the season finale at 7 p.m. Friday, and the 2000 state runner-up team will be recognized that night. For a game preview story, along with a preview of Crestview vs. Lima Central Catholic, check [&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-198618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-12 22:54:57","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\/198618","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=198618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198649,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198618\/revisions\/198649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}