{"id":616882,"date":"2026-04-19T10:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616882\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:16:13","slug":"injury-news-low-grade-strain-for-ridley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616882\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury news: Low-grade strain for Ridley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Injury Report\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Scans confirm injury for defender.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Jordan Ridley will miss Essendon\u2019s Anzac Day clash against Collingwood after sustaining a low-grade calf strain.<\/p>\n<p>The defender reported tightness in the third term of Saturday\u2019s clash against the SUNS and was removed from the game &#8211; a follow-up scan on Sunday morning revealed the extent of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>A return-to-play timeline will become clearer as Ridley begins his rehab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injury Report Scans confirm injury for defender. Jordan Ridley will miss Essendon\u2019s Anzac Day clash against Collingwood after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-616882","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\/616882","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=616882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}