{"id":200465,"date":"2025-12-11T22:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200465"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:31:45","slug":"national-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/11\/national-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"National champions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/USA-Pickleball-II-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200466\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The duo of Melissa Prows of Fort Wayne and Neil Straley of Van Wert recently competed in USA Pickleball\u2019s National Championship Series and came back as national champions. A full story can be found on the News page. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duo of Melissa Prows of Fort Wayne and Neil Straley of Van Wert recently competed in USA Pickleball\u2019s National Championship Series and came back as national champions. A full story can be found on the News page. Photo submitted<\/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-200465","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\/200465","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=200465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200467,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200465\/revisions\/200467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}