{"id":27715,"date":"2022-12-08T17:27:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T22:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=27715"},"modified":"2022-12-08T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T22:28:00","slug":"wnba-star-brittney-griner-released-from-a-russian-prison-in-a-prisoner-swap-for-an-arms-dealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/12\/08\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-released-from-a-russian-prison-in-a-prisoner-swap-for-an-arms-dealer\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA star Brittney Griner released from a Russian prison in a prisoner swap for an arms dealer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US President Joe Biden confirmed Brittney Griner was on a plane heading<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/download-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27716\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke by phone with Griner from the Oval Office, a US official said, adding that the call included Griner&#8217;s wife, Cherelle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian foreign ministry said it traded Griner for Russian citizen Viktor Bout, a former arms dealer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;She&#8217;s safe, she&#8217;s on a plane, she&#8217;s on her way home,&#8221; Biden said from the White House, where he was accompanied by Cherelle and administration officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Biden said Ms. Griner had been held under &#8220;intolerable circumstances&#8221; and been through a &#8220;terrible ordeal&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m glad to be able to say that Britney is in good spirits. She&#8217;s relieved to finally be heading home.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Griner &#8220;represents the best of America&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She will be flown to a medical facility in San Antonio, Texas, where she will also meet her wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden confirmed Brittney Griner was on a plane heading Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke by phone with Griner from the Oval Office, a US official&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[4009],"class_list":["post-27715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-wnba-star-brittney-griner-released-from-a-russian-prison-in-a-prisoner-swap-for-an-arms-dealer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}