{"id":761,"date":"2012-11-06T19:28:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T00:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=761"},"modified":"2012-11-06T19:28:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T00:28:41","slug":"pierre-garcon-says-surgery-may-be-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/11\/06\/pierre-garcon-says-surgery-may-be-an-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Garcon says surgery may be an option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surgery may be in the future of Washington Redskins wide receiver Pierre Garcon. Dealing with a plantar plate tear in his right foot the off season acquisition has only appeared in two games and has no timetable for returning to the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s no real update or miracle that happened overnight,\u201d Garcon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/blog\/redskins-watch\/2012\/nov\/6\/no-overnight-miracle-pierre-garcon\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe&#8217;re going to try to go after the bye, see how it feels. But we&#8217;re still trying to get as much pain out of it as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garcon plans to rest his foot and then test it out after the bye week.<\/p>\n<p>The Redskins have lost three straight games to fall to 3-6 and are hanging on to slim playoff chances. Garcon will likely opt for surgery should the Redskins lose a seventh game soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re trying to avoid that at all possible costs,\u201d he said. \u201cBut at some time you&#8217;ve got to be realistic and you&#8217;ve just got to have it and hopefully it&#8217;s a successful surgery and recover from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Pierre+Garcon+Washington+Redskins+v+Tampa+eI32QCJcXLNl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgery may be in the future of Washington Redskins wide receiver Pierre Garcon. Dealing with a plantar plate tear in his right foot the off season acquisition has only appeared in two games and has no timetable for returning to the field. \u201cThere&#8217;s no real update or miracle that happened overnight,\u201d Garcon said. \u201cWe&#8217;re going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[117],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-pierre-garcon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","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=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}