{"id":3522,"date":"2018-04-14T12:33:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T19:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2018-04-14T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T19:33:46","slug":"timbers-home-opener-saturday-at-730-vs-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2018\/04\/14\/timbers-home-opener-saturday-at-730-vs-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers home opener Saturday at 7:30 vs. Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second straight season, the Portland Timbers open their home season against Minnesota United, this year coming off a five game road trip to start the season. After two straight losses the Timbers earned a point in Dallas and then in Chicago, before letting a late 2-0 lead slip away in a disappointing 3-2 loss in Orlando last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota appears to be a much improved club over the expansion team that the Timbers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2017\/03\/04\/timbers-give-minnesota-a-rude-mls-welcome-in-5-1-opening-day-rout\/\">beat 5-1 to open the 2017 season<\/a>, but the main story tonight might be whether Timbers stars Liam Ridgewell and Fanendo Adi get playing time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timbers.com\/post\/2018\/04\/14\/matchday-portland-timbers-host-minnesota-united-fc-2018-home-opener\">Matchday | Portland Timbers host Minnesota United FC in 2018 home opener<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second straight season, the Portland Timbers open their home season against Minnesota United, this year coming off a five game road trip to start the season. After two straight losses the Timbers earned a point in Dallas and then in Chicago, before letting a late 2-0 lead slip away in a disappointing 3-2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/min030317-44s.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","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=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}