{"id":1657,"date":"2012-12-12T13:56:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2012-12-12T13:56:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T18:56:16","slug":"clay-matthews-returns-to-practice-for-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/12\/12\/clay-matthews-returns-to-practice-for-packers\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay Matthews returns to practice for Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1658\" alt=\"claymatthews\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/claymatthews.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/claymatthews.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/claymatthews-300x263.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/claymatthews-50x43.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Linebacker Clay Matthews was able to return to practice for the Green Bay Packers on Wednesday. Matthews has been out since Week 9 while dealing with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews is expected to play in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Chicago Bears. On Monday Packers head coach Mike McCarthy expressed hope that Matthews would be able to play against the Bears.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of Matthews bodes well for the NFC North leading Packers as they face one of the worst offensive lines in the Bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linebacker Clay Matthews was able to return to practice for the Green Bay Packers on Wednesday. Matthews has been out since Week 9 while dealing with a hamstring injury. Matthews is expected to play in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Chicago Bears. On Monday Packers head coach Mike McCarthy expressed hope that Matthews would be able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-1657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","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=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}