{"id":202462,"date":"2026-02-08T22:08:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202462"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:14:37","slug":"202462","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/08\/202462\/","title":{"rendered":"Huddle up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jeremy-Best-and-Cougars-2026-e1770693249438.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202463\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert boys basketball coach Jeremy Best (center) gives the Cougars instructions during a timeout. Van Wert hosted St. Henry Saturday night and the Cougars got off to a fast start but lost 57-48, which snapped a six-game winning streak. A game recap can be found on the Sports page. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert boys basketball coach Jeremy Best (center) gives the Cougars instructions during a timeout. Van Wert hosted St. Henry Saturday night and the Cougars got off to a fast start but lost 57-48, which snapped a six-game winning streak. A game recap can be found on the Sports page. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert 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-202462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 04:01:49","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\/202462","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=202462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202520,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202462\/revisions\/202520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}