{"id":35684,"date":"2015-06-12T12:34:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T16:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=35684"},"modified":"2015-06-13T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:19:09","slug":"jones-tweets-about-pending-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=35684","title":{"rendered":"Jones Undergoes Hernia Surgery, Out 6-8 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34136\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jones-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34136\" data-attachment-id=\"34136\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=34136\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jones-1.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=\"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\/2015\/04\/Jones-1.png?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jones-1.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34136\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jones-1.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jones-1.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jones-1.png?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Updated: 6\/12 at 7:24 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Revolution midfielder Jermaine Jones, who suffered a left groin strain during a 2-2 draw to LA Galaxy on May\u00a031, underwent surgery earlier today to repair a bilateral sports hernia. He&#8217;s expected to miss 6-8 weeks according to a team release.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Time to get ready for my surgery <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/pVN72Pv24S\">pic.twitter.com\/pVN72Pv24S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jermaine Jones (@Jermainejunior) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jermainejunior\/status\/609389481439969281\">June 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When asked about Jones&#8217; injury earlier this week, coach Jay Heaps told the media that the medical staff was waiting for the swelling around Jones&#8217; left groin to subside to fully assess it.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old midfielder missed last week&#8217;s game as a result of the injury, and is currently listed as &#8220;out&#8221; on the club&#8217;s latest injury report. Additionally, Jones was not listed on the U.S.&#8217;s provisional Gold Cup roster, which was released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the game against LA, Jones spoke with the media about the extent of his injury, and wasn&#8217;t particularly optimistic about a favorable prognosis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrust me, it\u2019s really bad,\u201d Jones said after the May 31 game. \u201cI don\u2019t feel really good with it. I worked to come back, and felt good, and now I have more pain than before. Nobody\u2019s happy with that. It\u2019s not good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February, Jones underwent sports hernia surgery, forcing him to miss the club&#8217;s first five games of the season.\u00a0Following the surgery, he revealed that he had played through the injury for over a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jermaine Jones confirmed via Twitter on Friday that he will undergo surgery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34136,"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":[891,1170,1274,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jones-1.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\/35684"}],"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=35684"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35734,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35684\/revisions\/35734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}