{"id":12221,"date":"2022-06-29T14:46:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T14:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/family-of-american-veteran-held-hostage-by-russians-speaks-out-l-gma\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T14:46:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T14:46:23","slug":"family-of-american-veteran-held-hostage-by-russians-speaks-out-l-gma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=12221","title":{"rendered":"Family of American veteran held hostage by Russians speaks out l GMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kiD_FzpajMA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Alex Drueke&#8217;s family tells ABC News that the veteran, who was captured in Ukraine while volunteering with Ukrainian forces, has spoken twice with the U.S. State Department by phone.<br \/>\nREAD MORE: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abcn.ws\/3NzDk5s\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/abcn.ws\/3NzDk5s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nSUBSCRIBE to GMA&#8217;s YouTube page:  <br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Zq0dU5\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Zq0dU5<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SIGN UP to get the daily GMA Wake-Up Newsletter: <br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gma.abc\/2Vzcd5j\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/gma.abc\/2Vzcd5j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VISIT GMA&#8217;s homepage: <br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW GMA:<br \/>\nTikTok: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tiktok.com\/@gma\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tiktok.com\/@gma<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/GoodMorningAmerica\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/instagram.com\/GoodMorningAmerica<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/GoodMorningAmerica\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/GoodMorningAmerica<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gma\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/gma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n#GMA #Russia #Veteran #AlexDrueke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Drueke&#8217;s family tells ABC News that the veteran, who was captured in Ukraine while volunteering with Ukrainian forces, has spoken twice with the U.S. State Department by phone. READ MORE: https:\/\/abcn.ws\/3NzDk5s SUBSCRIBE to GMA&#8217;s YouTube page: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Zq0dU5 SIGN UP&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6598,17169,1494,17170,6238,16440,56,5058,5008,17168,6207,4461,742,6240,5074,2582],"class_list":["post-12221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-alex","tag-alex-drueke","tag-american","tag-americans-detained-in-russua","tag-department","tag-drueke","tag-family","tag-gma","tag-p_cmsid2494279","tag-p_vidnews-85915539","tag-phone","tag-russians","tag-state","tag-u-s","tag-ukraine","tag-veteran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}