{"id":275566,"date":"2022-05-15T15:01:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=275566"},"modified":"2022-05-15T15:01:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T13:01:50","slug":"russia-to-trade-brittney-griner-for-an-arms-trafficker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/russia-to-trade-brittney-griner-for-an-arms-trafficker\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia to trade Brittney Griner for an arms trafficker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/society\/1450359\">Tass.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Russian entrepreneur Viktor Bout who was sentenced in the US for arms sales may be traded for American basketball player Brittney Griner who is accused in Russia of drug trafficking, a source in the Public Monitoring Commission confirmed to TASS on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Bout was apprehended in Thailand\u2019s capital of Bangkok in 2008 following a sting by US federal agents. He was charged with conspiracy to deliver weapons to a group regarded as a terrorist organization by the United States. In 2010, Bout was extradited to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>US basketball player Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia over suspicions of drug smuggling. She is a two-time World Champion and a two-time Olympic Champion. Before the arrest, she played for Yekaterinburg\u2019s UGMK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griner has been detained in Russia since Feb. 17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":264876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96],"tags":[16084],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-275566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wnba","tag-brittney-griner-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/03\/brittney-griner.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275566"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=275566"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=275566"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=275566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}