{"id":4402,"date":"2013-07-31T20:36:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T00:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2013-07-31T20:15:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T00:15:33","slug":"broncos-trying-to-pry-ryan-lilja-out-of-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/07\/31\/broncos-trying-to-pry-ryan-lilja-out-of-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos pry Ryan Lilja out of retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4403\" alt=\"lilja\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/lilja.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/lilja.jpg 660w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/lilja-300x145.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/07\/lilja-50x24.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1375299230628_1985\">While Jeff Saturday has no plans to unretire, the same is not true for Ryan Lilja.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1375299230628_1983\">The Broncos have offered Lilja, 31, a contract bringing him out of retirement, reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/broncos\/ci_23767404\/broncos-peyton-manning-try-lure-center-ryan-lilja\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Denver Post<\/a>. Lilja had previously discussed a comeback attempt with the Kansas City Chiefs back in May but those talks were placed on hold.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1375299230628_1978\">Lilja has been rehabbing from toe and knee surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos lost Dan Koppen for the season and are faced with starting inexperienced Manny Ramirez at center. Lilja and Manning played together on the Colts from 2004-2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Jeff Saturday has no plans to unretire, the same is not true for Ryan Lilja. The Broncos have offered Lilja, 31, a contract bringing him out of retirement, reports the Denver Post. Lilja had previously discussed a comeback attempt with the Kansas City Chiefs back in May but those talks were placed on hold. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-4402","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\/4402","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=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}