{"id":277336,"date":"2022-05-28T19:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T17:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=277336"},"modified":"2022-05-28T19:34:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T17:34:59","slug":"wnba-asks-biden-for-help-and-launches-petition-to-bring-brittney-griner-home-wearebg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wnba-asks-biden-for-help-and-launches-petition-to-bring-brittney-griner-home-wearebg\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA asks Biden for help and launches petition to bring Brittney Griner home #WeAreBG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brittney Griner was arrested 100 days ago now at an airport near Moscow on drug charges for the hashish oil she was carrying in her luggage.<\/p>\n<p>Way too many.<\/p>\n<p>The hashtag #WeAreBG now reigns on Twitter but also on WNBA players&#8217; T-shirts during warm-ups.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA has asked U.S. President Joe Biden for help, and has launched a petition at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ewtjzam4BW\">WeareBG.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is so much heartbreak and hurt in our country right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a>, please use all available resources to get <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BrittneyGriner?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BrittneyGriner<\/a> home. We need something to rally around and build upon. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ewtjzam4BW\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ewtjzam4BW<\/a> to learn more and take action. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreBG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeAreBG<\/a>  \ud83e\uddf51\/6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vNTO48LJIq\">pic.twitter.com\/vNTO48LJIq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WNBPA (@TheWNBPA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWNBPA\/status\/1530590251256791041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sign the petition \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LKNFfJnyUj\">https:\/\/t.co\/LKNFfJnyUj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Paul (@CP3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CP3\/status\/1530586143577845760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a>, BG has been wrongfully detained in Russia for 100 DAYS. Help us BRING BG HOME. We need you and we are counting on you. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ewtjzam4BW\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ewtjzam4BW<\/a> to learn more and take action. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreBG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeAreBG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ijwFtLy520\">pic.twitter.com\/ijwFtLy520<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WNBPA (@TheWNBPA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWNBPA\/status\/1530544987129126913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">100th DAY that our sister, Brittney Griner, has spent wrongfully detained in Russia. 100 DAYS that a friend, daughter, wife, Olympian, community activist, and so much more, has spent away from loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vc58TLHpyu\">https:\/\/t.co\/vc58TLHpyu<\/a> &amp; demand <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WhiteHouse<\/a> BRING BG HOME. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreBG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeAreBG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lngofbjDno\">pic.twitter.com\/lngofbjDno<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Natalie Achonwa (@NatAchon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NatAchon\/status\/1530565797365563392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griner has been wrogfully detained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":277335,"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-277336","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\/05\/FT2WjQMWYAAQL8P.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277336","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=277336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277336"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=277336"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=277336"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=277336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}