{"id":35636,"date":"2015-06-10T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T18:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=35636"},"modified":"2015-06-11T08:23:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T12:23:59","slug":"knighton-loaned-to-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=35636","title":{"rendered":"Knighton Loaned to Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35637\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Knighton1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35637\" data-attachment-id=\"35637\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=35637\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Knighton1.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" 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=\"Knighton1\" 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\/2015\/06\/Knighton1.png?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Knighton1.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Knighton1.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Knighton1.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Knighton1.png?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A brief homecoming of sorts awaits Revolution backup keeper Brad Knighton.<\/p>\n<p>Knighton, who grew up in Richmond, Va., was loaned to the Richmond Kickers ahead of their USL game on Wednesday against the Charleston Battery at Blackbaud Stadium in Charleston, S.C.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old keeper, whose lone appearance this season came in a 4-2 loss at Sporting Kansas City on May 20, is set join the Kickers on Wednesday. He will return to Foxborough on Thursday in advance of the Revolution&#8217;s game against the Chicago Fire on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Knighton had about two dozen friends and family on hand at City Stadium for the Revolution&#8217;s fourth-round U.S. Open Cup match against the Kickers.  He started between the sticks to help the Revolution secure a 3-2 win. <\/p>\n<p>Knighton is the second Revolution goalkeeper to join the Kickers this season, joining Trevor Spangenberg, who had a 1-0-1 record with 12 saves and two goals allowed in games against FC Montreal and Charleston earlier this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolution backup keeper Brad Knighton was loaned to his hometown Richmond Kickers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35637,"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":[3],"tags":[265,1274,364,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Knighton1.png?fit=600%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35665,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35636\/revisions\/35665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}