{"id":203091,"date":"2026-02-24T20:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=203091"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:34:35","slug":"mccracken-to-defiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/24\/mccracken-to-defiance\/","title":{"rendered":"McCracken to Defiance"},"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\/02\/Griffin-McCracken-signing-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203092\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert High School senior Griffin McCracken, a four sport (golf, football, basketball, baseball) standout for the Cougars, has signed a letter of intent to golf and play football at Defiance College. He is flanked by his parents, Eric and Melody McCracken. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert High School senior Griffin McCracken, a four sport (golf, football, basketball, baseball) standout for the Cougars, has signed a letter of intent to golf and play football at Defiance College. He is flanked by his parents, Eric and Melody McCracken. 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-203091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 18:37:15","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\/203091","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=203091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203093,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203091\/revisions\/203093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}