{"id":5647,"date":"2013-10-02T22:39:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T02:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5647"},"modified":"2013-10-02T22:39:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T02:39:25","slug":"christian-ponder-fractured-a-rib-near-his-heart-expected-to-miss-additional-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/02\/christian-ponder-fractured-a-rib-near-his-heart-expected-to-miss-additional-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Ponder fractured a rib near his heart, expected to miss additional time"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5648\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5648\" alt=\"Source: Adam Bettcher\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/christianponder.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/christianponder.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/christianponder-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/christianponder-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Adam Bettcher\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Christian Ponder is expected to miss additional games with a fractured rib near his heart.<\/p>\n<p>Ponder, 25, missed Week 4 and the Vikings have a bye in Week 5. ESPN 1500&#8217;s Judd Zulgad suspects that Ponder will miss another three or four games but return in time for Week 8 or 9.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>I&#8217;m guessing that with Christian Ponder having a fractured rib near his heart he will be out because of injury for three to four games.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Judd Zulgad (@1500ESPNJudd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1500ESPNJudd\/statuses\/385149636559638529\">October 1, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings won their first game in Week 4 with Matt Cassel under center. Should the team continue to win he would seem likely to assume the role for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Ponder is expected to miss additional games with a fractured rib near his heart. Ponder, 25, missed Week 4 and the Vikings have a bye in Week 5. ESPN 1500&#8217;s Judd Zulgad suspects that Ponder will miss another three or four games but return in time for Week 8 or 9. I&#8217;m guessing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[414,152],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-5647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-christian-ponder","tag-minnesota-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647","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=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}