{"id":7251,"date":"2009-04-03T13:18:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T20:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2009-04-03T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T20:35:03","slug":"snow-skiing-ligety-not-expected-to-need-surgery-after-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7251","title":{"rendered":"Snow Skiing &#8211; Ligety not expected to need surgery after fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety will be in a brace for two weeks but is not expected to need surgery after injuring ligaments in his right knee at the U.S. Alpine Championships last weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re optimistic for Ted so far,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d U.S. Ski Team medical director Richard Quincy said in a statement released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ligety was hurt when he fell during downhill practice Saturday in Alaska&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ski\/news?slug=ap-ligetyinjured&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety will be in a brace for two weeks but is not expected to need surgery after injuring ligaments in his right knee at the U.S. Alpine Championships last weekend. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re optimistic for Ted so far,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d U.S. Ski Team medical director Richard Quincy said in a statement released Thursday. Ligety was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7278,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions\/7278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}