{"id":8190,"date":"2022-06-24T16:39:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2022-06-24T16:39:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:39:32","slug":"biden-races-against-time-to-unlock-ukraines-trapped-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8190","title":{"rendered":"Biden races against time to unlock Ukraine\u2019s trapped grain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The Biden administration and European allies have been working for weeks to build out the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-plans-to-boost-ukraines-food-exports-black-sea-blockade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">European Union\u2019s \u201csolidarity lanes,\u201d a patchwork of ad hoc rail and truck land routes<\/a>&nbsp;out of Ukraine, with the eventual goal of shipping the bulk of the grain to Romania\u2019s seaports, so it can reach fragile countries across Africa and the Middle East reeling from food shortages and severe drought. But for now, they\u2019re trying to keep it from being stolen by Russian forces or spoiling in makeshift containers inside Ukraine as the fighting continues.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/17\/biden-ukraine-trapped-grain-00040640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/17\/biden-ukraine-trapped-grain-00040640<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Biden administration and European allies have been working for weeks to build out the European Union\u2019s \u201csolidarity lanes,\u201d a patchwork of ad hoc rail and truck land routes out of Ukraine, with the eventual goal of shipping the bulk of the grain to Romania\u2019s seaports, so it can reach fragile countries across Africa and the Middle East reeling from food shortages and severe drought. But for now, they\u2019re trying to keep it from being stolen by Russian forces or spoiling in makeshift containers inside Ukraine as the fighting continues.&#8221;<\/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":[13],"tags":[552,924,923,725,272,355,1660,314,1545,780,315,311,158],"class_list":["post-8190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-eastern-europe","tag-european-union","tag-food","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-grain","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-joe-biden","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8191,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions\/8191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}