{"id":202701,"date":"2026-02-15T21:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202701"},"modified":"2026-02-15T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:49:25","slug":"cougars-vs-bearcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/15\/cougars-vs-bearcats\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars vs. Bearcats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kaiven-Welch-2-14-2026-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kaiven-Welch-2-14-2026-1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kaiven-Welch-2-14-2026-1-492x600.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert senior Kaiven Welch (0) prepares to pass the ball during Saturday\u2019s basketball game against Spencerville while younger brother Keaten Welch (5), a junior, drives to the basket against the Bearcats. The game was a close one, but Spencerville was able to hold on for a 50-49 win. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert indepenent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Keaten-Welch-2-14-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202704\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert senior Kaiven Welch (0) prepares to pass the ball during Saturday\u2019s basketball game against Spencerville while younger brother Keaten Welch (5), a junior, drives to the basket against the Bearcats. The game was a close one, but Spencerville was able to hold on for a 50-49 win. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert indepenent<\/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-202701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 00:57:51","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\/202701","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=202701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202705,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202701\/revisions\/202705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}