{"id":3706,"date":"2013-05-21T11:28:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2013-05-21T11:28:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:28:32","slug":"tony-romo-had-minor-surgery-on-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/05\/21\/tony-romo-had-minor-surgery-on-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Romo had minor surgery on back"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1228\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1228\" alt=\"tonyromo\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/tonyromo.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/tonyromo.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/tonyromo-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo will miss organizaed team activities that begin on Tuesday and run for three weeks. The veteran underwent a minor surgical procedure on his back last month to remove a cyst.<\/p>\n<p>While the severity of the surgery will raise questions about the long-term health of Romo the immediate impact is that the Cowboys quarterback could be out of action until training camp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this was the regular season and I had to play next week, I could,&#8221; Romo told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/dallas-cowboys\/headlines\/20130521-dallas-cowboys-quarterback-tony-romo-out-at-least-3-weeks-because-of-surgery-to-remove-cyst.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Morning News<\/a>. &#8220;This is just about being smart. That&#8217;s why I did it now. This will have no effect on training camp. No way will it have an impact. And I still think there&#8217;s a good chance I&#8217;m on the field for minicamp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear when or how Romo got hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Romo signed a six-year extension in March worth $108 million, including $55 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Orton will run the first-team offense for the Cowboys in Romo&#8217;s absence. Orton played in one game last season for the Cowboys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo will miss organizaed team activities that begin on Tuesday and run for three weeks. The veteran underwent a minor surgical procedure on his back last month to remove a cyst. While the severity of the surgery will raise questions about the long-term health of Romo the immediate impact is that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35,99],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-tony-romo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706","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=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}