{"id":210823,"date":"2026-10-03T00:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T05:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=210823"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T05:47:11","slug":"210823","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/10\/03\/210823\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/VW-Cougars-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/VW-Cougars-2026.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/VW-Cougars-2026-550x329.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/VW-Cougars-2026-768x459.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Cougars run onto Alumni Field at Eggerss Stadium before Friday night\u2019s homecoming game against St. Marys Memorial. Unfortunately, the Cougars were stunned by the Roughriders on the final play of the game and lost 43-42. 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>The Van Wert Cougars run onto Alumni Field at Eggerss Stadium before Friday night\u2019s homecoming game against St. Marys Memorial. Unfortunately, the Cougars were stunned by the Roughriders on the final play of the game and lost 43-42. 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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstory"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-11 18:43:15","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\/210823","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=210823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210825,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210823\/revisions\/210825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}