{"id":42984,"date":"2016-05-08T00:17:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T04:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=42984"},"modified":"2016-05-08T00:40:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T04:40:16","slug":"jones-scores-again-to-lift-rapids-to-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=42984","title":{"rendered":"Jones Scores Again to Lift Rapids to First"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_40326\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40326\" data-attachment-id=\"40326\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=40326\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jones-1.png?fit=600%2C415\" data-orig-size=\"600,415\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jones-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jones-1.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jones-1.png?fit=600%2C415\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jones-1.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jones-1.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jones-1.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Revolution designated player Jermaine Jones scored his third goal in as many games to put the Colorado Rapids atop the Western Conference table following Saturday&#8217;s 1-0 win over Real Salt Lake. <\/p>\n<p>Jones latched onto a Kevin Doyle layoff in the 47th minute and beat Nick Rimando at the far post to give Rapids a lead it would not relinquish.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jermainejunior\">@Jermainejunior<\/a> back at it again. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COLvRSL?src=hash\">#COLvRSL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Oul273U15G\">https:\/\/t.co\/Oul273U15G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Major League Soccer (@MLS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS\/status\/729133142829731840\">May 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Since joining the Rapids, Jones, who was acquired in a trade with the Revolution in March, has scored three goals and collected two assists in three games. During that span, the Rapids have remained unbeaten and now boast a conference-best 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jones&#8217; former MLS club currently sits in eighth place in the Eastern Conference, and have only one win in their first ten games to open the season.<\/p>\n<p>Jones and the Rapids will look to keep up their winning ways on Wednesday against Sporting Kansas City at Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods Park. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Revs DP Jermaine Jones scored his third goal in as many games to lift the Rapids to 1st place in the west. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40326,"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":[897],"tags":[891,1315,1465,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jones-1.png?fit=600%2C415","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42984"}],"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=42984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42987,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42984\/revisions\/42987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}