{"id":208562,"date":"2026-08-04T20:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=208562"},"modified":"2026-08-04T20:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:28:28","slug":"football-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/08\/04\/football-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Football practice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Cougar-practice-8-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208563\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Line technique was part of Tuesday morning\u2019s Van Wert football practice. The Cougars will continue practicing this week and will host a quad scrimmage with Paulding, Lima Central Catholic and defending Division VII state champion St. Henry on Friday. <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Line technique was part of Tuesday morning\u2019s Van Wert football practice. The Cougars will continue practicing this week and will host a quad scrimmage with Paulding, Lima Central Catholic and defending Division VII state champion St. Henry on Friday. Scott Truxell\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 02:06:02","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\/208562","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=208562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208564,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208562\/revisions\/208564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}