{"id":201447,"date":"2026-01-11T21:44:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=201447"},"modified":"2026-01-11T21:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:44:53","slug":"cougars-vs-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/01\/11\/cougars-vs-flyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars vs. Flyers"},"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\/2026\/01\/Xavier-Kelly-1-10-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201444\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Xavier Kelly (2) passes the ball during Saturday\u2019s game against Marion Local. Zach Crummey (below) is sandwiched by Flyer defenders and Keaten Welch (5) finds himself looking up against the Flyers. Marion Local won the game 45-32. <em>Bob Barnes\/VW independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Zach-Crummey-1-10-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201445\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"542\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Keaten-Welch-1-10-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201446\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier Kelly (2) passes the ball during Saturday\u2019s game against Marion Local. Zach Crummey (below) is sandwiched by Flyer defenders and Keaten Welch (5) finds himself looking up against the Flyers. Marion Local won the game 45-32. 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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 03:58:22","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\/201447","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=201447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201448,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201447\/revisions\/201448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}