{"id":201432,"date":"2026-01-11T22:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=201432"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:00:12","slug":"201432","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/01\/11\/201432\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday hoops action&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/VW-ML-crowd-1-10-2026-e1768276748535.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201433\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A big crowd was on hand on the home side for Saturday\u2019s non-conference boys basketball game between Van Wert and Division VI No. 1 ranked Marion Local. The two teams were separated by just one point at halftime but the Flyers pulled away for the win. Those in attendance were also treated to a halftime performance by the Van Wert Elementary School&#8217;s &#8220;Jumpin&#8217; Jammers.&#8221; A game recap and more pictures can be found on the Sports page. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big crowd was on hand on the home side for Saturday\u2019s non-conference boys basketball game between Van Wert and Division VI No. 1 ranked Marion Local. The two teams were separated by just one point at halftime but the Flyers pulled away for the win. Those in attendance were also treated to a halftime [&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-201432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 09:44:18","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\/201432","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=201432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201512,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201432\/revisions\/201512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}