{"id":18920,"date":"2013-04-08T18:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T22:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=18920"},"modified":"2013-04-08T18:23:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T22:23:19","slug":"dorchesters-ryan-johnson-wins-mls-potw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=18920","title":{"rendered":"Dorchester&#8217;s Ryan Johnson Wins MLS POTW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"cfb0403oi\" width=\"455\" height=\"349\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" name=\"cfb0403on\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/p.mlssoccer.com\/SAu5a\/video\/1676458\/mls_2013-04-07-000158.640hq.mp4\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Portland Timbers forward Ryan Johnson, who grew up in Dorchester, Mass., was voted MLS Player of the Week for Week 6 of the 2013 season by the North American Soccer Reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson scored both goals (55&#8242;, 73&#8242;) in the Timbers&#8217; 2-0 win &#8211; their first of the season -over the Houston Dynamo on Saturday. His 73rd minute strike has been nominated for MLS Goal of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old striker, who earned the 2002 Boston Globe Player of the Year while at Melrose High School, has three goals in five games for the Timbers this year.<\/p>\n<p>He was originally selected by Real Salt Lake in the third round of the 2006 SuperDraft, before going on to play for the Chicago Fire (2006), San Jose Earthquakes (2008-11 and Toronto FC (2011-12). He has scored 30 goals in 157 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorchester&#8217;s Ryan Johnson earned MLS Player of the Week following a two-goal performance against Houston on Saturday.<\/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":[],"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\/18920"}],"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=18920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18922,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18920\/revisions\/18922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}