{"id":3987,"date":"2013-08-22T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-of-heyward-has-surgery-on-fractured-jaw\/"},"modified":"2013-08-22T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T14:33:00","slug":"braves-of-heyward-has-surgery-on-fractured-jaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-of-heyward-has-surgery-on-fractured-jaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves OF Heyward has surgery on fractured jaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) &#8211; Atlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward underwent surgery Thursday to repair his fractured jaw.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward is expected to miss 4-to-6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The surgery was performed by Dr. Glenn Maron.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward was injured in the top of the sixth inning after taking a pitch from Jon Niese to the side of his face in Wednesday&#8217;s 4-1, 10-inning victory over the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward had been on a tear since being moved to the leadoff spot last month. He is hitting .253 with 13 homers and 37 RBI for the NL East-leading Braves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) &#8211; Atlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward underwent surgery Thursday to repair his fractured jaw. Heyward is expected to miss 4-to-6 weeks. The surgery was performed by Dr. Glenn Maron. Heyward was injured in the top of the sixth inning after taking a pitch from Jon Niese to the side of his [&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":[18,17,19],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987","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=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}