{"id":18645,"date":"2022-12-09T08:44:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T08:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=18645"},"modified":"2022-12-09T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T08:44:21","slug":"brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-detention-in-swap-for-merchant-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=18645","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner Freed From Russian Detention In Swap For \u2018Merchant Of Death\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Dec 8, 2022, 11:11am EST Topline Russian authorities released American basketball star Brittney Griner to American custody on Thursday, concluding Griner\u2019s 10-month Russian detention. Key Facts The U.S. freed convicted weapons dealer Viktor Bout, known as the \u201cMerchant of Death,\u201d in exchange for Griner, an unnamed American official told CBS News. The swap occurred<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereksaul\/2022\/12\/08\/brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-detention-in-swap-for-merchant-of-death\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Dec 8, 2022, 11:11am EST Topline Russian authorities released American basketball star Brittney Griner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/18645-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-detention-in-swap-for-merchant-of-death.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/18645-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-detention-in-swap-for-merchant-of-death-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/18645-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-detention-in-swap-for-merchant-of-death-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/18645-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-detention-in-swap-for-merchant-of-death-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/18645-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-detention-in-swap-for-merchant-of-death-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/18645-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-detention-in-swap-for-merchant-of-death.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/18645-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-detention-in-swap-for-merchant-of-death.jpg",1200,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/18645-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-detention-in-swap-for-merchant-of-death-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/18645-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-detention-in-swap-for-merchant-of-death-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/18645-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-detention-in-swap-for-merchant-of-death-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}