{"id":61811,"date":"2023-12-20T16:52:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=61811"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:52:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T00:52:42","slug":"barger-issues-statement-on-release-of-l-a-county-public-defender-in-venezuelan-prisoner-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=61811","title":{"rendered":"Barger Issues Statement on Release of L.A. County Public Defender in Venezuelan Prisoner Swap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Supervisor Kathryn Barger issued the following statement today, reacting to the announcement by the White House that Eyvin Hernandez, a Los Angeles County public defender imprisoned in Venezuela since March 2022, has been released and is on his way back to the United States:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>\u201cIt is a huge relief to know that this member of our County family has been released and is on his way back home.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Mr. Hernandez was an innocent bystander caught up in a political power play by the Venezuelan government and has suffered tremendously. I want him and his family to know that our County and its resources stand by to help him recover from this terrible, unjust ordeal.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>His return is a reminder that we should keep fighting for what we know is right, and to not give up hope.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supervisor Kathryn Barger issued the following&#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61811","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=61811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61812,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61811\/revisions\/61812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}