{"id":16969,"date":"2009-12-16T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16969"},"modified":"2020-12-16T07:55:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T07:55:36","slug":"monk-to-return-for-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/12\/16\/monk-to-return-for-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk To Return For Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The former Southampton and Torquay defender hasn&#8217;t played since the 2-0 win at Scunthorpe in October due to a calf injury, but is closing in on a return to the side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">While Saturday&#8217;s game at Sheffield Wednesday is likely to come too soon, the Christmas fixture at\u00a0now managerless\u00a0Reading is the date penned for Monk&#8217;s comeback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In his absence, the Swans have struggled defensively, keeping just two clean sheets and conceding eight goals in six games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;They told me I could now press on and I&#8217;m hoping to be back training with the lads by the end of the week.&#8221;\u00a0he told the Evening Post.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Southampton and Torquay defender hasn&#8217;t played since the 2-0 win at Scunthorpe in October due to a calf injury, but is closing in on a return to the side. While Saturday&#8217;s game at Sheffield Wednesday is likely to come too soon, the Christmas fixture at\u00a0now managerless\u00a0Reading is the date penned for Monk&#8217;s comeback. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}