{"id":209459,"date":"2026-08-29T00:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=209459"},"modified":"2026-08-29T00:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:08:45","slug":"touchdown-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/08\/29\/touchdown-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Touchdown machine!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Xavier-Kelly-II-8-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209460\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Xavier Kelly (11) scored four touchdowns during Friday\u2019s WBL opener against Elida, marking the second straight game he found the end zone four times. The Cougars won the game 31-21. A full game story can be found on the Sports page.<em> Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Xavier Kelly (11) scored four touchdowns during Friday\u2019s WBL opener against Elida, marking the second straight game he found the end zone four times. The Cougars won the game 31-21. A full game story can be found on the Sports page. Bob Barnes\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-05 06:15:42","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\/209459","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=209459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209461,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209459\/revisions\/209461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}