{"id":6802,"date":"2011-05-19T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6802"},"modified":"2011-05-19T14:59:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:59:17","slug":"celtics-rivers-ok-after-throat-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6802","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Rivers  OK After Throat Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8212; Boston Celtics coach <strong>Doc Rivers <\/strong>is recovering from surgery to remove a benign polyp from his throat.<\/p>\n<p>The team said doctors told <strong>Rivers<\/strong> he is cancer free.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rivers<\/strong> joked that his family will be happy that he can&#8217;t talk for two weeks. But he also urged all coaches to get their throats checked after the stress put on their vocal cords during the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics were eliminated from the playoffs in the second round by the Miami Heat. <strong>Rivers<\/strong> signed a five-year extension with the team last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8212; Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers is recovering from surgery to remove a benign polyp from his throat. The team said doctors told Rivers he is cancer free. Rivers joked that his family will be happy that he can&#8217;t talk for two weeks. But he also urged all coaches to get their throats checked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}