{"id":824,"date":"2013-08-31T11:57:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=824"},"modified":"2013-08-31T11:57:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T15:57:55","slug":"a-j-mccarron-had-surgery-to-remove-toe-nail-will-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/08\/31\/a-j-mccarron-had-surgery-to-remove-toe-nail-will-play\/","title":{"rendered":"A.J. McCarron had surgery to remove toe nail, will play"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-716\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-716\" alt=\"Streeter Lecka\/Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/mccarron.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/mccarron.jpg 635w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/mccarron-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Streeter Lecka\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback A.J. McCarron had surgery on his toe Thursday to fix an infection.<\/p>\n<p>The senior quarterback will play in Saturday&#8217;s game against Virgina Tech.<\/p>\n<p>McCarron had a toe nail removed and later showed up in a walking boot in Atlanta, site of today&#8217;s game. Naturally this caused an uproar on social media but according to reports there is no concern amongst Alabama.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KirkHerbstreit\">@KirkHerbstreit<\/a>, AJ McCarron on Thursday had minor surgical procedure to address infection; toenail was removed<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Schad (@schadjoe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/schadjoe\/statuses\/373818934950379520\">August 31, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Former Crimson Tide running back Eddie Lacy wore a walking boot his entire final season and played in every game.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama&#8217;s quest for an unrepresented third straight National Championship begins at 5:30 pm on ESPN in the Georgia Dome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback A.J. McCarron had surgery on his toe Thursday to fix an infection. The senior quarterback will play in Saturday&#8217;s game against Virgina Tech. McCarron had a toe nail removed and later showed up in a walking boot in Atlanta, site of today&#8217;s game. Naturally this caused an uproar on social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[77,42],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaafb-news","8":"tag-a-j-mccarron","9":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}