{"id":7579,"date":"2013-11-07T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bears-cutler-cleared-expected-to-start-sunday\/"},"modified":"2013-11-07T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T14:40:00","slug":"bears-cutler-cleared-expected-to-start-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bears-cutler-cleared-expected-to-start-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears&#8217; Cutler cleared, expected to start Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Forest, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Bears will likely have their starting quarterback for Sunday&#8217;s critical NFC North clash with the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n<p>Bears coach Marc Trestman announced Thursday that Jay Cutler, who suffered a groin injury in Week 7, has been cleared to play after missing Monday night&#8217;s game at Green Bay. Cutler is expected to start against the Lions despite the initial prognosis suggesting he&#8217;d be sidelined a minimum of four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Josh McCown completed 22-of-41 passes for 272 yards and two touchdowns in the 27-20 win over the Packers.<\/p>\n<p>Cutler has thrown for 1,658 yards with 12 touchdowns and seven interceptions this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears, Lions and Packers are all tied for first in the division at 5-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Forest, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Bears will likely have their starting quarterback for Sunday&#8217;s critical NFC North clash with the Detroit Lions. Bears coach Marc Trestman announced Thursday that Jay Cutler, who suffered a groin injury in Week 7, has been cleared to play after missing Monday night&#8217;s game at Green Bay. Cutler [&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":[157,30,156],"class_list":["post-7579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bears","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579","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=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}