{"id":29814,"date":"2013-10-16T14:02:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T19:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=29814"},"modified":"2013-10-17T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T15:40:04","slug":"josh-freeman-to-start-for-vikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=29814","title":{"rendered":"Josh Freeman To Start For Vikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29868\" alt=\"joshfreeman\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP Oct 16, 2013) &#8211; Josh Freeman will be the starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night against the New York Giants.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vikings coach Leslie Frazier made the announcement after practice Wednesday. Frazier said Christian Ponder will be the backup, not Matt Cassel.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Freeman will be the third starter in the last four games for Minnesota, assuming he makes it through the week without problems.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Freeman was cut by Tampa Bay on Oct. 3 and signed by Minnesota five days later. The 25-year-old started 59 games over four-plus seasons with the Buccaneers. The former first-round draft pick got a one-year contract with the Vikings (1-4).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Running back Adrian Peterson was missing from practice because of a personal matter. Frazier said he expected him back on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP Oct 16, 2013) &#8211; Josh Freeman will be the starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night against the New York Giants. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vikings coach Leslie Frazier made the announcement after practice Wednesday. Frazier said Christian Ponder will be the backup, not Matt Cassel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29814","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\/29814","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=29814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29869,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29814\/revisions\/29869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}