{"id":27020,"date":"2014-12-10T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wild-d-ballard-released-from-hospital\/"},"modified":"2014-12-10T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:03:00","slug":"wild-d-ballard-released-from-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wild-d-ballard-released-from-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild D Ballard released from hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Wild announced that defenseman Keith Ballard has been released from a local hospital and will be out indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Ballard left Tuesday&#8217;s 5-4 home loss to the Islanders after absorbing a hard check from New York&#8217;s Matt Martin with 11:56 to play in the second period. He appeared to be unconscious immediately after contact was made, and was helped off the ice after several minutes of evaluation from team staff.<\/p>\n<p>Ballard was deemed to have suffered multiple facial fractures once taken for further examination at Regions Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a second dose of bad luck for the 32-year-old, who missed time earlier in the season due to the mumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Wild announced that defenseman Keith Ballard has been released from a local hospital and will be out indefinitely. Ballard left Tuesday&#8217;s 5-4 home loss to the Islanders after absorbing a hard check from New York&#8217;s Matt Martin with 11:56 to play in the second period. He appeared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020","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=27020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}