{"id":5839,"date":"2013-10-11T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2013-10-11T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:42:55","slug":"adrian-peterson-will-play-against-panthers-asks-for-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/11\/adrian-peterson-will-play-against-panthers-asks-for-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Peterson will play against Panthers, asks for privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/11\/adrianpeterson.jpg\" alt=\"adrianpeterson\" width=\"594\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/11\/adrianpeterson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/11\/adrianpeterson-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nAdrian Peterson plans to play in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Carolina Panthers even as his son is in critical condition following an attack from the boyfriend of the child&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really appreciate all the support from fans and the Vikings,\u201d Peterson said after Friday\u2019s practice,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seankjensen\/status\/388727411094732800\" target=\"_blank\">via the Pioneer Press<\/a>. \u201cI ask y\u2019all respect my privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peterson described himself as &#8220;ready to roll&#8221; and told reporters that &#8220;I&#8217;m able to release a lot of stress though sports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Adrian Peterson said he plans to play. &quot;I&#39;m able to release a lot of stress through sports.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Jensen (@seankjensen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seankjensen\/statuses\/388727377909403648\">October 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Peterson&#8217;s father Nelson Peterson told the Pioneer Press that Adrian Jr., a child seen at Vikings camp in the past, is not the child that was injured earlier this week. Rather this is another child of Peterson.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Robert Patterson, 27, has been charged with aggravated assault and aggravated assault on an infant following the attack.<\/p>\n<p>In four games this season Peterson has 421 yards rushing with five touchdowns. He has caught 11 passes for 52 yards and another touchdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Peterson plans to play in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Carolina Panthers even as his son is in critical condition following an attack from the boyfriend of the child&#8217;s mother. \u201cI really appreciate all the support from fans and the Vikings,\u201d Peterson said after Friday\u2019s practice,\u00a0via the Pioneer Press. \u201cI ask y\u2019all respect my privacy.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[148,152],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-adrian-peterson","tag-minnesota-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839","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=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}