{"id":22759,"date":"2014-08-28T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-president-montgomery-takes-medical-leave\/"},"modified":"2014-08-28T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:52:00","slug":"phillies-president-montgomery-takes-medical-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-president-montgomery-takes-medical-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies president Montgomery takes medical leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Philadelphia Phillies president and CEO David Montgomery is taking a medical leave of absence while he continues to recover from jaw cancer surgery, the team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery, who has management authority over the team as a general partner, underwent surgery on May 19.<\/p>\n<p>Former Phillies general manager Pat Gillick, who has been acting as a senior advisor to current GM Ruben Amaro Jr., will assume Montgomery&#8217;s duties.<\/p>\n<p>Gillick said in a statement he is &#8220;glad to be of assistance&#8221; in Montgomery&#8217;s absence and looks forward to him returning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Philadelphia Phillies president and CEO David Montgomery is taking a medical leave of absence while he continues to recover from jaw cancer surgery, the team announced Thursday. Montgomery, who has management authority over the team as a general partner, underwent surgery on May 19. Former Phillies general manager Pat Gillick, who [&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":[64,194,195],"class_list":["post-22759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22759","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=22759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}