{"id":209995,"date":"2026-09-12T00:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=209995"},"modified":"2026-09-12T00:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:40:36","slug":"football-friday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/09\/12\/football-friday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Friday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Calin-Balliet-II-9-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209996\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Crestview freshman quarterback Calin Balliet (15) celebrates with his teammates after scoring a touchdown against Spencerville Friday night. Balliet made his first start and the Knights defeated Spencerville 41-8. Van Wert was in action Friday night as well but the Cougars didn\u2019t fare as well, falling to Celina 49-28. Full game stories can be found on the Sports page. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crestview freshman quarterback Calin Balliet (15) celebrates with his teammates after scoring a touchdown against Spencerville Friday night. Balliet made his first start and the Knights defeated Spencerville 41-8. Van Wert was in action Friday night as well but the Cougars didn\u2019t fare as well, falling to Celina 49-28. Full game stories can be found [&hellip;]<\/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-209995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-20 00:45:39","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\/209995","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=209995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209998,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209995\/revisions\/209998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}