{"id":17631,"date":"2013-01-14T17:36:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T22:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=17631"},"modified":"2013-01-14T21:34:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T02:34:35","slug":"bengston-beckoned-to-honduras-nt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=17631","title":{"rendered":"Bengston Beckoned to Honduras NT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g-xwIfXsnc0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jerry Bengtson is headed back home. Again.<\/p>\n<p>For the fourth time in his brief tenure with the New England Revolution, the 25-year-old striker has been called up by the Honduras National Team for international competition.<\/p>\n<p>With the Copa Centroamericana tournament\u00a0set to kick off\u00a0on Jan. 18, and a World Cup Qualifier against the United States on Feb. 6, Bengtson is expected to miss the first three weeks of the Revolution&#8217;s preseason camp.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to re-join the team ahead of the FC Tucson Desert Diamond Cup tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Bengtson has scored eight goals for Honduras, including a trio of tallies at the 2012 Summer Olympics, since inking a designated player deal with New England last July.<\/p>\n<p>In 13 games for the Revolution, he scored two goals &#8211; his first one coming in his MLS\u00a0debut on Jul. 8 vs. New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolution striker Jerry Bengtson is headed back to his native Honduras for national team action. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[197,198,121,1274,196],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17635,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631\/revisions\/17635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}