{"id":359838,"date":"2015-06-02T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=359838"},"modified":"2015-06-03T09:29:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:29:46","slug":"adrian-peterson-returns-to-minnesota-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=359838","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Peterson Returns to Minnesota Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/adrian_peterson_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/adrian_peterson_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"adrian_peterson_1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-359840\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; East Texas native Adrian Peterson will be returning to the Minnesota Vikings, and the star running back tells The Associated Press that he hasn&#8217;t lost his love for the team. Peterson, of Palestine, sent an e-mail to the AP early Tuesday morning saying he&#8217;s excited to put on a uniform again after missing the final 15 games of last season while addressing child abuse charges in Texas. The Vikings opened their second set of three voluntary practices on Tuesday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Peterson skipped all three practices last week. He tells the AP that he had a family commitment that caused him to be absent. But he tweeted last week that he was looking for more long-term security. He tells the AP that &#8220;it&#8217;s normal procedure for any player in my position to want to secure his future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; East Texas native Adrian Peterson will be returning to the Minnesota Vikings, and the star running back tells The Associated Press that he hasn&#8217;t lost his love for the team. Peterson, of Palestine, sent an e-mail to the AP early Tuesday morning saying he&#8217;s excited to put on a uniform again after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=359838\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adrian Peterson Returns to Minnesota Vikings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":359840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 18:49:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359838"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360019,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359838\/revisions\/360019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/359840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}