{"id":209690,"date":"2026-09-03T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=209690"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:49:09","slug":"cheerleading-competition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/09\/03\/cheerleading-competition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheerleading competition&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Van-Wert-cheer-I-9-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209691\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Lancer-cheerleaders-9-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209692\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\\The annual cheerleading competition took over the grandstand area at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds Wednesday night. Cheer squads of various ages from Van Wert, Lincolnview, Crestview and other area schools took part in the competition. Tonight\u2019s grandstand attraction is the high school band show, which will begin at 7 p.m. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Crestview-cheer-9-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209693\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Van-Wert-cheer-II-9-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209694\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\\The annual cheerleading competition took over the grandstand area at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds Wednesday night. Cheer squads of various ages from Van Wert, Lincolnview, Crestview and other area schools took part in the competition. Tonight\u2019s grandstand attraction is the high school band show, which will begin at 7 p.m. 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-209690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-10 19:18:21","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\/209690","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=209690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209695,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209690\/revisions\/209695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}