{"id":17956,"date":"2014-04-29T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nats-harper-has-surgery-out-two-months\/"},"modified":"2014-04-29T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T17:29:00","slug":"nats-harper-has-surgery-out-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nats-harper-has-surgery-out-two-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Nats&#8217; Harper has surgery, out two months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper underwent surgery Tuesday to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb, an injury that could sideline the young slugger until after the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>Harper announced on his Twitter account that the procedure was a success, though the Nationals expect him to be out for a minimum of two months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the road to recovery..Everything went great and I&#8217;ll be back soon! Thank you to all the fans for the support!,&#8221; Harper tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 National League Rookie of the Year tore the ulnar collateral ligament in the thumb while sliding head-first into third base on a triple Friday against San Diego and was placed on the 15-day disabled list two days later.<\/p>\n<p>Harper hit .289 with one home run, two triples and nine RBI in 22 games prior to the injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper underwent surgery Tuesday to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb, an injury that could sideline the young slugger until after the All-Star break. Harper announced on his Twitter account that the procedure was a success, though the Nationals expect him to be out for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[193,95,192],"class_list":["post-17956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}