{"id":210876,"date":"2026-10-04T20:33:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T01:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=210876"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T01:33:51","slug":"week-no-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/10\/04\/week-no-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Week No. 8&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Van-Wert-defense-10-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210877\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Cougars will try to shake off Friday\u2019s 43-42 homecoming loss to St. Marys Memorial, but it won\u2019t be easy. Van Wert will head to Putnam County to face the undefeated and state-ranked Ottawa-Glandorf Titans (7-0, 6-0 WBL) this Friday night. A game preview will appear on Wednesday\u2019s Sports page. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Cougars will try to shake off Friday\u2019s 43-42 homecoming loss to St. Marys Memorial, but it won\u2019t be easy. Van Wert will head to Putnam County to face the undefeated and state-ranked Ottawa-Glandorf Titans (7-0, 6-0 WBL) this Friday night. A game preview will appear on Wednesday\u2019s Sports page. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert [&hellip;]<\/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-210876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 07:19:38","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\/210876","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=210876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210878,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210876\/revisions\/210878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}