{"id":173258,"date":"2018-07-25T23:25:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T03:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=173258"},"modified":"2018-07-25T23:25:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T03:25:24","slug":"putin-soccer-ball-gift-trump-may-microchip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/25\/putin-soccer-ball-gift-trump-may-microchip\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin soccer ball gift to Trump may have had microchip"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_173264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173264\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-173264\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wh-1024x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wh-1024x530.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wh-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wh-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wh.jpg 1172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-173264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adidas says that particular ball is embedded with a microchip that accesses Adidas content for display on smartphones. (Photo: The White House)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The soccer ball that Vladimir Putin gave President Donald Trump may have had a bug after all. Though it&#8217;s not what you&#8217;re thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Adidas says that particular ball is embedded with a microchip that accesses Adidas content for display on smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>After the Russian leader tossed it to Trump following their Finland summit, Sen. Lindsey Graham \u2014 a Putin critic \u2014 tweeted that he&#8217;d have it checked for listening devices.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s exactly what the U.S. Secret Service has done. A security screening is standard for all gifts to the president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he would give the red-and-white ball to his 12-year-old son, Barron, a soccer fan.<\/p>\n<p>Graham said he&#8217;d \u201cnever allow it in the White House.\u201d The White House had no update Wednesday on the ball&#8217;s status.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The soccer ball that Vladimir Putin gave President Donald Trump may have had a bug after all. Though &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":173264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-darlene-superville","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}