{"id":50939,"date":"2022-07-31T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50939"},"modified":"2022-08-01T11:28:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:28:43","slug":"biden-takes-a-big-gamble-to-secure-griner-whelans-release-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50939","title":{"rendered":"Biden takes a big gamble to secure Griner, Whelan\u2019s release from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Biden\u00a0is signaling a new willingness to exchange a top prisoner with Russia to get WNBA star\u00a0Brittney Griner\u00a0and American citizen\u00a0Paul Whelan\u00a0back from Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The administration\u2019s offer risks giving Russia leverage and could undercut U.S. efforts to hold together an international campaign to isolate Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Griner\u2019s high profile \u2014 an extraordinary athlete breaking ground for the LGBT community \u2014 has elicited outrage from the sports world and lawmakers pressuring Biden to secure her release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Biden\u00a0is signaling a new willingness to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50940,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50939\/revisions\/50940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}