{"id":11581,"date":"2014-09-15T12:15:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11581"},"modified":"2014-09-15T12:15:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:15:36","slug":"vikings-reinstate-adrian-peterson-will-play-sunday-against-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/09\/15\/vikings-reinstate-adrian-peterson-will-play-sunday-against-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings reinstate Adrian Peterson, will play Sunday against Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11582\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/adrianpeterson.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/adrianpeterson.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/adrianpeterson-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Minnesota Vikings have reinstated Adrian Peterson to their football team following a deactivation period that left him out of action for their Week 2 blowout loss to New England.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson will practice with the Vikings and then play in next Sunday&#8217;s game at New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 13 Peterson was booked on charges of reckless or negligent injury to a child and released on $15,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>According to the attorney for Peterson, Rusty Hardin, the incident \u201cinvolves using a switch to spank his son.\u201d Peterson is alleged to have used a tree branch to strike his 4-year-old son who had been visiting him in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson has not spoken publicly since the incident came to light. At the time Sunday&#8217;s game was set to kickoff he posted a tweet with some biblical scriptures highlighted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/MWx2msqj9d\">pic.twitter.com\/MWx2msqj9d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Peterson (@AdrianPeterson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdrianPeterson\/status\/511198837449711616\">September 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of an indefinite suspension handed to Ray Rice by the NFL and Peterson&#8217;s deactivation the Carolina Pathers deactivated Greg Hardy for Sunday&#8217;s game. Meanwhile San Francisco opted to play Ray McDonald on Sunday night while he faces pending domestic violence charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings have reinstated Adrian Peterson to their football team following a deactivation period that left him out of action for their Week 2 blowout loss to New England. Peterson will practice with the Vikings and then play in next Sunday&#8217;s game at New Orleans. On Sept. 13 Peterson was booked on charges of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[148,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-11581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-adrian-peterson","tag-front","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11583,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions\/11583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11581"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}