{"id":107723,"date":"2016-09-21T16:36:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T21:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=107723"},"modified":"2016-09-21T16:36:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T21:36:35","slug":"peterson-to-undergo-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=107723","title":{"rendered":"Peterson to undergo knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-64883\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/petersonAdrian-300x202.png\" alt=\"petersonAdrian\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/petersonAdrian-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/petersonAdrian-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/petersonAdrian-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/petersonAdrian.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Adrian Peterson will undergo surgery on his right knee to repair a torn meniscus and <span style=\"color: red;\">Minnesota<\/span> Vikings coach Mike Zimmer says the star running back could return this season.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson was injured in Sunday night&#8217;s victory over Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 league MVP made a fast recovery from a torn ACL in his left knee suffered at the end of the 2011 season, then rushed for more than 2,000 yards in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\">Minnesota<\/span> (2-0) on Wednesday signed running back Ronnie Hillman, who was with the Broncos when they won the Super Bowl last season. Jerick McKinnon will start at Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings also placed starting left tackle Matt Kalil on injured reserve with a hip problem that will require surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Adrian Peterson will undergo surgery on his right knee to repair a torn meniscus and Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer says the star running back could return this season. Peterson was injured in Sunday night&#8217;s victory over Green Bay. The 2012 league MVP made a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107724,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107723\/revisions\/107724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}