{"id":243889,"date":"2022-02-04T08:18:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=243889"},"modified":"2022-02-20T13:07:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T19:07:50","slug":"as-russia-tensions-boil-us-farmer-remains-jailed-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=243889","title":{"rendered":"US Farmer Remains Jailed in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 An American farmer is jailed in Ukraine on charges he attempted to assassinate a former business partner who is now a government minister. The family of Kurt Groszhans says the charges are bogus and designed to stifle his claims of corruption. His former partner, Roman Leshchenko, has denied that he embezzled money from the American\u2019s company. Groszhans\u2019s relatives and supporters are also concerned that the North Dakota man risks being left behind as the U.S. braces for a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine. The State Department says it\u2019s closely following the case and takes seriously its responsibility to help detained Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 An American farmer is jailed in Ukraine on charges he attempted to assassinate a former business partner who is now a government minister. The family of Kurt Groszhans says the charges are bogus and designed to stifle his claims of corruption. His former partner, Roman Leshchenko, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","category-worldnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243891,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243889\/revisions\/243891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}