{"id":1732419,"date":"2022-08-04T10:44:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T14:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1732419"},"modified":"2022-08-04T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T14:44:48","slug":"brittney-griners-trial-nears-end-with-closing-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1732419","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner&#8217;s Trial Nears End with Closing Arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/brittney-griner-s-trial-nears-an-end-with-closing-arguments-and-her-own-final-statement\/20402838\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wral.com\/asset\/news\/national_world\/national\/2022\/07\/29\/20394788\/media_ead56b9de90241a89c226e290f6ad005-DMID1-5vs7i2hbd-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Pictures_of_the_Week_Europe_and_Africa_Photo_Gallery_96820\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The trial of Brittney Griner reached its final stage on Thursday, with the American basketball star appearing in a Russian court for the start of closing arguments in a case that is expected to end with the conviction of Griner, who has been caught up in the crisis between Moscow and Washington over Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/brittney-griner-s-trial-nears-an-end-with-closing-arguments-and-her-own-final-statement\/20402838\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/brittney-griner-s-trial-nears-an-end-with-closing-arguments-and-her-own-final-statement\/20402838\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Brittney Griner's Trial Nears End with Closing Arguments\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of Brittney Griner reached its final stage on Thursday, with the American basketball star appearing in a Russian court for the start of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}