{"id":211838,"date":"2026-10-31T00:17:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=211838"},"modified":"2026-10-31T00:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:18:13","slug":"211838","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/10\/31\/211838\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Van-Wert-Cougars-10-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Van-Wert-Cougars-10-2026.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Van-Wert-Cougars-10-2026-550x238.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Van-Wert-Cougars-10-2026-768x332.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert returned to the playoffs for the first time since 2023 but unfortunately not much went right for the Cougars during Friday\u2019s night\u2019s game at Otsego. Van Wert fell behind early and went on to lose the game 63-27. 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 returned to the playoffs for the first time since 2023 but unfortunately not much went right for the Cougars during Friday\u2019s night\u2019s game at Otsego. Van Wert fell behind early and went on to lose the game 63-27. 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-211838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstory"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-07 05:44:22","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\/211838","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=211838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211845,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211838\/revisions\/211845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}