{"id":1791801,"date":"2022-12-08T11:52:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1791801"},"modified":"2022-12-08T11:52:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:52:25","slug":"brittney-griner-is-freed-as-part-of-a-prisoner-swap-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1791801","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner Is Freed as Part of a Prisoner Swap with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/brittney-griner-is-freed-as-part-of-a-prisoner-swap-with-russia\/20619369\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wral.com\/asset\/news\/national_world\/world\/2022\/08\/02\/20399773\/media-hypatia-h_d87f406b8a0d79a680ce7ffdd65c04ad-h_b8e2e442923c305bead8fb2ed2ad4db2-300-DMID1-5vrd6mutj-80x53.jpg\" alt=\"hypatia-h_d87f406b8a0d79a680ce7ffdd65c04ad-h_b8e2e442923c305bead8fb2ed2ad4db2-300\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Brittney Griner, the American basketball star imprisoned in Russia, was released Thursday after nearly 10 months of captivity in a prisoner swap for Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms dealer known as the \u201cMerchant of Death,\u201d President Joe Biden announced. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/brittney-griner-is-freed-as-part-of-a-prisoner-swap-with-russia\/20619369\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/brittney-griner-is-freed-as-part-of-a-prisoner-swap-with-russia\/20619369\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Brittney Griner Is Freed as Part of a Prisoner Swap with Russia\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Brittney Griner, the American basketball star imprisoned in Russia, was released Thursday after nearly 10 months of captivity in a prisoner swap for&#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-1791801","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\/1791801","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=1791801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1791801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1791801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1791801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}