{"id":7756,"date":"2013-12-22T14:40:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T19:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2013-12-22T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T19:40:47","slug":"calvin-johnson-active-against-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/22\/calvin-johnson-active-against-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Johnson active against Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7731\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/calvinjohnson.jpg\" alt=\"Calvin Johnson could miss game against Giants?\" width=\"594\" height=\"302\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7731\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/calvinjohnson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/calvinjohnson-300x152.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/calvinjohnson-50x25.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nDetroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson will be playing in the Week 16 match-up against the New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>There had been some concern early Sunday that Johnson would not play due to a knee injury but the veteran wide receiver was not listed with the inactive for the Lions.<\/p>\n<p>Once the Lions seemed on their way to winning their division but that is hardly a guarantee anymore. At 7-7 the Lions need to win out and get some help with losses by the Packers and Bears if they are to win the NFC North.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Lions&amp;src=hash\">#Lions<\/a> inactives vs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Giants&amp;src=hash\">#Giants<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/UOqjG6Hk9u\">pic.twitter.com\/UOqjG6Hk9u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; pat hanlon (@giantspathanlon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/giantspathanlon\/statuses\/414839626008760320\">December 22, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 13 games this season Johnson has 81 catches for 1449 yards and 12 touchdowns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson will be playing in the Week 16 match-up against the New York Giants. There had been some concern early Sunday that Johnson would not play due to a knee injury but the veteran wide receiver was not listed with the inactive for the Lions. Once the Lions seemed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[157,151,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-7756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-calvin-johnson","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756","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=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}