{"id":206727,"date":"2026-06-07T19:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206727"},"modified":"2026-06-07T19:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:40:55","slug":"cougars-at-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/06\/07\/cougars-at-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars at state!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"568\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Micah-Cowan-6-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206728\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Micah Cowan (above) earned a place on the podium at the OHSAA track and field state championships over the weekend. Cowan finished eighth in the Division III 300 meter hurdles (40.03). Meanwhile, Flannery Foster (below) wrapped up her freshman campaign with a 13th place finish in the discus (112-05). <em>Photos courtesy of Monica Campbell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"511\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Flannery-Foster-6-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206729\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Micah Cowan (above) earned a place on the podium at the OHSAA track and field state championships over the weekend. Cowan finished eighth in the Division III 300 meter hurdles (40.03). Meanwhile, Flannery Foster (below) wrapped up her freshman campaign with a 13th place finish in the discus (112-05). Photos courtesy of Monica [&hellip;]<\/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-206727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 03:03:07","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\/206727","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=206727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206730,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206727\/revisions\/206730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}