{"id":5026,"date":"2020-03-12T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=5026"},"modified":"2020-03-12T11:09:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:09:27","slug":"mls-suspends-2020-season-for-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2020\/03\/12\/mls-suspends-2020-season-for-30-days\/","title":{"rendered":"MLS suspends 2020 season for 30 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Soccer has suspended play for at least 30 days in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and efforts to limit it&#8217;s spread. This affects at least the next four Timbers matches vs. New England, Los Angeles FC, Philadelphia, and Houston, and also cancels the Portland Thorns preseason tournament scheduled for March 29-April 4.<\/p>\n<p>The USL Championship has also been suspended for at least 30 days which affects Timbers 2 matches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timbers.com\/post\/2020\/03\/12\/portland-timbers-statement-mls-season-suspension\">Portland Timbers statement on MLS season suspension<\/a> | Timbers website<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/post\/2020\/03\/12\/major-league-soccer-suspends-season-30-days-impact-coronavirus\">MLS suspends 2020 season for 30 days due to coronavirus<\/a> | MLS website<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/post\/2020\/03\/12\/usl-championship-suspends-season-due-covid-19-impact\">USL Championship suspends season due to COVID-19 impact<\/a> | MLS website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Soccer has suspended play for at least 30 days in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and efforts to limit it&#8217;s spread. This affects at least the next four Timbers matches vs. New England, Los Angeles FC, Philadelphia, and Houston, and also cancels the Portland Thorns preseason tournament scheduled for March 29-April 4. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,19,16,18,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-major-league-soccer","category-news-thorns","category-news","category-news-reserves","category-thorns","category-timbers-mls","category-timbers-t2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ball2020.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026","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=5026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5030,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions\/5030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}