{"id":60008,"date":"2025-08-11T12:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/60008\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:54:08","slug":"injury-news-merrett-undergoes-successful-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/60008\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury news: Merrett undergoes successful surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Dons skipper aiming to return for Blues clash.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Essendon Captain Zach Merrett has undergone successful surgery on Monday to repair a fractured metacarpal in his hand.<\/p>\n<p>The injury, sustained during the Dons&#8217; defeat to Geelong, will sideline him for the upcoming round 23 match against St Kilda.<\/p>\n<p>The Club is optimistic that Merrett will be able to return for their round 24 match against Carlton to celebrate his 250th career game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dons skipper aiming to return for Blues clash. Essendon Captain Zach Merrett has undergone successful surgery on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-60008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}