{"id":53702,"date":"2022-12-08T19:27:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T19:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53702"},"modified":"2022-12-08T19:27:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T19:27:52","slug":"paul-whelan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53702","title":{"rendered":"Now &#8230; get Whelan home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">President Biden made this key point abundantly clear, which is that Brittney Griner\u2019s release was not a trade for the fate of another American being held unjustly by Russian captors.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Whelan has been stewing in a Russian prison cell for four years, far longer than the nine months that the Russians held Griner captive.<\/p>\n<p>Whelan\u2019s family has been gracious in welcoming Griner home. Clearly, though, they are distressed that their loved one \u2014 a former Marine \u2014 remains in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians accused him of espionage in 2018. Joe Biden calls his imprisonment \u201cunjust.\u201d And it is. He was convicted in a Russian sham trial and sent away for a 25-year sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Whelan needs to come home. Joe Biden vows to move heaven and Earth to make it happen. Indeed, it\u2019s a tall order, given the state of U.S.-Russian relations in the wake of the Ukraine War and Russia\u2019s immoral invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>We all want Whelan released. We all stand with him and every American being held unjustly. I am going to send every single good vibe and all the encouraging karma I can muster to ensure Whelan\u2019s eventual release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden made this key point abundantly clear, which is that Brittney Griner\u2019s release was not a trade for the fate of another American being held unjustly by Russian captors. Paul Whelan has been stewing in a Russian prison cell for four years, far longer than the nine months that the Russians held Griner captive. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53702\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now &#8230; get Whelan home<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9965,2505,10079,10078,9899],"class_list":["post-53702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-brittney-griner","tag-joe-biden","tag-paul-whelan","tag-russian-jail","tag-ukraine-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53704,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53702\/revisions\/53704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}