{"id":200301,"date":"2025-12-07T21:44:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200301"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:44:27","slug":"cougar-hoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/07\/cougar-hoops\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar hoops&#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\/12\/Cohen-Bragg-12-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200302\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Cohen Bragg (above) and Xavier Kelly (below) drive to the basket during Saturday\u2019s non-conference basketball game against Wayne Trace. The Cougars won a nailbiter over the Raiders, 50-47. <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=\"406\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Xavier-Kelly-12-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200303\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Cohen Bragg (above) and Xavier Kelly (below) drive to the basket during Saturday\u2019s non-conference basketball game against Wayne Trace. The Cougars won a nailbiter over the Raiders, 50-47. 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-200301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 21:04:37","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\/200301","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=200301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200304,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200301\/revisions\/200304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}