{"id":254,"date":"2012-02-21T05:57:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T05:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soccercityusa.com\/main\/?p=254"},"modified":"2012-02-21T05:57:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T05:57:24","slug":"timbers-introduce-kris-boyd-to-the-rose-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2012\/02\/21\/timbers-introduce-kris-boyd-to-the-rose-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers introduce Kris Boyd to the Rose City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Photo from Wikipedia\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/88\/Kris_Boyd.jpg\/220px-Kris_Boyd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"329\" \/>The Timbers made a few very high-profile signing in the offseason, most notably in forward Kris Boyd, the all-time leading scorer in Scottish Premier League history with 164 goals in 296 appearances. \u00a0The 28 year-old joins the Timbers after five seasons with Kilmarnock FC, and four seasons with Celtic before playing for Middlesborough, Nottingham Forest, and\u00a0\u00a0Eski\u015fehirspor in Turkey before joining the Timbers on January 30.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Boyd was introduced to Portland fans and the media on February 21.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kris Boyd arrives in Portland; introduced to media:<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/02\/kris-boyd-arrives-portland-introduced-media\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/02\/kris-boyd-arrives-portland-introduced-media\">http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/02\/kris-boyd-arrives-portland-introduced-media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DP striker Boyd has goals on his mind in Portland<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/02\/dp-striker-boyd-has-goals-his-mind-portland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/02\/dp-striker-boyd-has-goals-his-mind-portland\">http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/02\/dp-striker-boyd-has-goals-his-mind-portland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jet-lagged Boyd happy to get to training for Timbers<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/02\/jet-lagged-boyd-happy-get-training-timbers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/02\/jet-lagged-boyd-happy-get-training-timbers\">http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/02\/jet-lagged-boyd-happy-get-training-timbers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Timbers sign Designated Player Kris Boyd<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/01\/timbers-sign-designated-player-kris-boyd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/01\/timbers-sign-designated-player-kris-boyd\">http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/01\/timbers-sign-designated-player-kris-boyd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Timbers made a few very high-profile signing in the offseason, most notably in forward Kris Boyd, the all-time leading scorer in Scottish Premier League history with 164 goals in 296 appearances. \u00a0The 28 year-old joins the Timbers after five seasons with Kilmarnock FC, and four seasons with Celtic before playing for Middlesborough, Nottingham Forest, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}