{"id":3153,"date":"2013-08-02T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cowboys-livings-to-have-knee-surgery\/"},"modified":"2013-08-02T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T13:48:00","slug":"cowboys-livings-to-have-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cowboys-livings-to-have-knee-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys&#8217; Livings to have knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oxnard, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Dallas Cowboys announced Friday that guard Nate Livings is scheduled to undergo a scope on his ailing right knee, a procedure that could put his status for the season opener in question.<\/p>\n<p>Livings, a 16-game starter at left guard last year, had surgery on the same knee in February and had just returned to practice after missing some time with a cut on his foot.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-year veteran, who signed a five-year, $18.7 million free-agent deal with Dallas prior to last season, is expected to be sidelined anywhere from 2- to-4 weeks. The Cowboys begin their regular season Sept. 8 against the New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Livings&#8217; injury is the latest blow to a Dallas offensive line that&#8217;s had several members down during camp. Right guard Mackenzy Bernadeau remains on the active\/physically unable to perform list due to a hamstring strain, while reserve guards Ryan Cook (back) and Kevin Kowalski (knee) and tackles Jermey Parnell (hamstring) and Demetress Bell (conditioning) are not currently practicing as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys are also presently without defensive end and franchise player Anthony Spencer, who had a knee scope of his own performed last week, and nose tackle Jay Ratliff (hamstring\/PUP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxnard, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Dallas Cowboys announced Friday that guard Nate Livings is scheduled to undergo a scope on his ailing right knee, a procedure that could put his status for the season opener in question. Livings, a 16-game starter at left guard last year, had surgery on the same knee in February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[150,149,148],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-cowboys","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","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=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}