{"id":74734,"date":"2022-07-06T20:26:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T20:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/biden-calls-wife-of-wnba-s-griner-says-her-detention-is-intolerable"},"modified":"2022-07-06T20:26:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T20:26:19","slug":"biden-calls-wife-of-wnba-s-griner-says-her-detention-is-intolerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/biden-calls-wife-of-wnba-s-griner-says-her-detention-is-intolerable","title":{"rendered":"Biden calls wife of WNBA&#8217;s Griner, says her detention is &#8216;intolerable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Joe Biden told Brittney Griner&#8217;s wife in a call on Wednesday that he is working to secure the WNBA basketball star&#8217;s release from Russia as soon as possible, describing her detention on drug charges as &#8220;intolerable.&#8221; Griner, who had been playing for a Russian club during the off-season, was arrested at a Moscow airport on Feb. 17 when a search of her luggage allegedly revealed cannabis oil vape cartridges. She went on trial last week and her next hearing is set for Thursday. If convicted on drug charges, she could face up to 10 years in prison. Griner sent Biden a letter this week, telling him she was &#8220;terrified (she) might be here forever.&#8221; Speaking with Griner&#8217;s wife, Cherelle Griner, Biden read a draft of the letter he is sending to the basketball player on Wednesday, the White House said. &#8220;The President called Cherelle to reassure her that he is working to secure Brittney&#8217;s release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Joe Biden told Brittney Griner&#8217;s wife in a call on Wednesday that he is working to secure the WNBA basketball star&#8217;s release from Russia as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,42,41,58,43,298],"class_list":["post-74734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-politics","tag-potus","tag-sports","tag-u-s-politics","tag-wnba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}