{"id":201640,"date":"2026-01-17T00:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=201640"},"modified":"2026-01-18T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:00:53","slug":"201640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/01\/17\/201640\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Van-Wert-Cougars-hoops-1-16-2026-e1768791620497.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201641\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert boys basketball coach Jeremy Best gives his team instructions during Friday\u2019s WBL game against Defiance. The pep talk worked, as the Cougars won the game 47-35. Lincolnview and Crestview also posted wins on Friday. Game stories can be found on the Sports page. <em>Bob Barnes\/VW independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert boys basketball coach Jeremy Best gives his team instructions during Friday\u2019s WBL game against Defiance. The pep talk worked, as the Cougars won the game 47-35. Lincolnview and Crestview also posted wins on Friday. Game stories 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-201640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 12:32:25","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\/201640","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=201640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201705,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201640\/revisions\/201705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}