{"id":1196,"date":"2004-11-18T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T02:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/diplomad_inside"},"modified":"2004-11-18T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2004-11-19T02:40:11","slug":"diplomad_inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"Diplomad &#8211; an inside view of the Foreign Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever wondered what was actually going on in the State Department, you owe it to yourself to read and bookmark <a href=\"http:\/\/diplomadic.blogspot.com\/\">Diplomad<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This is a blog by career US Foreign Service officers. They are Republican (most of the time) in an institution (State Department) in which being a Republican can be bad for your career &#8212; even with a Republican President!<\/p>\n<p>Recents posts include some interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/diplomadic.blogspot.com\/2004\/11\/to-next-secretary-of-state.html\">advice for Condi Rice<\/a> and an insider&#8217;s view of <a href=\"http:\/\/diplomadic.blogspot.com\/2004\/11\/powell-calls-it-quits.html\">Colin Powell&#8217;s performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How long will it take before there are blogs providing background information on other areas of the Federal Government?<\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to seeing more blogs casting light into the dark corners of government bureaucracy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever wondered what was actually going on in the State Department, you owe it to yourself to read and bookmark Diplomad. This is a blog by career US Foreign Service officers. They are Republican (most of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1196\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1831],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-ji","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}