{"id":11517,"date":"2014-09-14T10:45:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T14:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11517"},"modified":"2014-09-14T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T14:45:17","slug":"vontaze-burfict-cleared-to-play-against-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/09\/14\/vontaze-burfict-cleared-to-play-against-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"Vontaze Burfict cleared to play against Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11103\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/vontazeburfict.jpg\" alt=\"vontazeburfict\" width=\"594\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/vontazeburfict.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/vontazeburfict-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In what will be a big boost for the defense of the Cincinnati Bengals, Vontaze Burfict has been cleared to play in Sunday&#8217;s Week 2 game against the Atlanta Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>Burfict was able to practice on Friday and has been cleared by an independent neurologist to return to the football field. Burfict left the Bengals Week 1 contest in the second quarter with the concussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Odds &amp; TV: <a title=\"Atlanta Falcons at Cincinnati Bengals: Betting odds, point spread and tv info\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/09\/14\/atlanta-falcons-at-cincinnati-bengals-betting-odds-point-spread-and-tv-info\/\">Falcons vs. Bengals game info<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Falcons posted 445 yards passing and 123 yards rushing in their Week 1 win over the Saints. They do not figure to match that sort of output in Sunday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what will be a big boost for the defense of the Cincinnati Bengals, Vontaze Burfict has been cleared to play in Sunday&#8217;s Week 2 game against the Atlanta Falcons. Burfict was able to practice on Friday and has been cleared by an independent neurologist to return to the football field. Burfict left the Bengals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[174,216,722],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-11517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-nfl","tag-vontaze-burfict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11518,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions\/11518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11517"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}