{"id":202317,"date":"2026-02-04T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202317"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:29:12","slug":"smith-to-north-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/04\/smith-to-north-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith to North Alabama&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lincoln-Smith-2-4-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202318\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Crestview High School senior Lincoln Smith has signed a letter of intent to run cross country at the University of North Alabama, a Division I program in Florence, Alabama. The Lions are members of the Atlantic Sun Conference. Last fall, Smith led the Knights to the Division IV cross country state championship. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crestview High School senior Lincoln Smith has signed a letter of intent to run cross country at the University of North Alabama, a Division I program in Florence, Alabama. The Lions are members of the Atlantic Sun Conference. Last fall, Smith led the Knights to the Division IV cross country state championship. 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-202317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 22:33:59","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\/202317","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=202317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202319,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202317\/revisions\/202319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}