{"id":202677,"date":"2026-02-14T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202677"},"modified":"2026-02-15T21:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:55:35","slug":"202677","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/14\/202677\/","title":{"rendered":"Big game crowd&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Van-Wert-vs.-Shawnee-2-13-2026-e1771210496938.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202678\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A large number of Van Wert fans flocked to Friday night\u2019s WBL boys basketball showdown against Shawnee. Unfortunately, the Cougars fell to the Indians 60-53, dropping Van Wert out of a first place tie. Meanwhile, less than 15 minutes away, Lincolnview clinched an outright NWC championship with a win over Crestview. Stories about both teams can be found on the Sports page.<em> Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of Van Wert fans flocked to Friday night\u2019s WBL boys basketball showdown against Shawnee. Unfortunately, the Cougars fell to the Indians 60-53, dropping Van Wert out of a first place tie. Meanwhile, less than 15 minutes away, Lincolnview clinched an outright NWC championship with a win over Crestview. Stories about both teams [&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-202677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 07:41:08","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\/202677","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=202677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202714,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202677\/revisions\/202714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}