{"id":200522,"date":"2025-12-13T00:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T05:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200522"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:50:44","slug":"200522","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/13\/200522\/","title":{"rendered":"De-fense!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/VW-vs.-Elida-12-2025-e1765767031532.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200523\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Elida\u2019s Jonathan Payne (0) finds himself surrounded by four Van Wert defenders during Friday\u2019s night\u2019s game against the Cougars. After spotting the Bulldogs a first half lead, Van Wert clamped down defensively and cruised to a 61-36 win. A full game story can be found on the Sports page. <em>Bob Barnes\/VW independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elida\u2019s Jonathan Payne (0) finds himself surrounded by four Van Wert defenders during Friday\u2019s night\u2019s game against the Cougars. After spotting the Bulldogs a first half lead, Van Wert clamped down defensively and cruised to a 61-36 win. A full game story can be found on the Sports page. Bob Barnes\/VW 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-200522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 23:33:28","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\/200522","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=200522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200567,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200522\/revisions\/200567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}