{"id":4763,"date":"2015-06-01T20:02:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T00:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2015-06-01T20:02:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T00:02:36","slug":"kind-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/kind-of-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Kind of Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Diplomatic-Discourse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4764\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Diplomatic-Discourse-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Diplomatic Discourse\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Diplomatic-Discourse-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Diplomatic-Discourse.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a>Got an email today from\u00a0Justin Shuster at Yale University&#8217;s The Politic: The Yale College Journal of Politics. \u00a0They have just published Diplomatic Discourse,\u00a0a collection of over 100 interviews with United States Ambassadors, examining careers in the Foreign Service and contemporary issues facing American policy overseas. \u00a0I was interviewed for the book back in 2013. \u00a0You can buy your copy at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Diplomatic-Discourse-Justin-Schuster\/dp\/1329056272\/\">www.amazon.com\/Diplomatic-Discourse-Justin-Schuster\/dp\/1329056272\/<\/a>. \u00a0Or if you just want to read the interviews, you can find them on the The Politic website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thepolitic.org\/diplomatic-discourse\/\">thepolitic.org\/diplomatic-discourse\/<\/a>. \u00a0Or, you can jump straight to <a href=\"http:\/\/thepolitic.org\/an-interview-with-larry-l-memmott-charge-daffaires-of-the-u-s-embassy-in-bolivia\/\">my interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got an email today from\u00a0Justin Shuster at Yale University&#8217;s The Politic: The Yale College Journal of Politics. \u00a0They have just published Diplomatic Discourse,\u00a0a collection of over 100 interviews with United States Ambassadors, examining careers in the Foreign Service and contemporary issues facing American policy overseas. \u00a0I was interviewed for the book back in 2013. \u00a0You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,110,150,70,91],"tags":[187,151,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4765,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions\/4765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}