{"id":307264,"date":"2022-12-08T14:37:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=307264"},"modified":"2022-12-08T14:37:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:37:31","slug":"brittney-griner-released-from-russian-custody-us-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/brittney-griner-released-from-russian-custody-us-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner released from Russian custody, US confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from a Russian prison, as confirmed and announced by US President Joe Biden on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>According to different media sources and confirmed by US official, Griner has been released in a one-for-one prisoner swap for convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout. On Aug. 4, a Russian court found Griner guilty of drug smuggling and possession charges and sentenced her to nine years in prison.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Moments ago I spoke to Brittney Griner.<\/p>\n<p>She is safe.<br \/>She is on a plane.<br \/>She is on her way home. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FmHgfzrcDT\">pic.twitter.com\/FmHgfzrcDT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1600841306560937986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 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>US President Biden has confirmed WNBA star is safe and on &#8220;her way home&#8221;. According to media, she has been released in a prisoner swap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":287143,"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":[91,96],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-307264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","category-wnba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/1599px-Brittney_Griner_3.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307264","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\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307264"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=307264"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=307264"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=307264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}