{"id":226077,"date":"2026-05-15T07:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226077"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:54:29","slug":"rebuke-lessons-in-diplomacy-for-the-new-us-ambassador-with-love-from-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226077","title":{"rendered":"REBUKE: Lessons in diplomacy for the new US ambassador, with love from SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Ambassador Bozell\u2019s first public engagement began promisingly, but ended in him being issued a diplomatic reprimand by the South African government. The lesson to be imbibed? Avoid obvious pitfalls in the way things are discussed and bear in mind that being a successful media critic and a successful ambassador are two different breeds of cats&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/lessons-in-diplomacy-for-the-new-us-ambassador-with-love-from-sa\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Ambassador Bozell\u2019s first public engagement began promisingly, but ended in him being issued a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226077-rebuke-lessons-in-diplomacy-for-the-new-us-ambassador-with-love-from-sa.jpeg",900,592,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226077-rebuke-lessons-in-diplomacy-for-the-new-us-ambassador-with-love-from-sa-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226077-rebuke-lessons-in-diplomacy-for-the-new-us-ambassador-with-love-from-sa-300x197.jpeg",300,197,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226077-rebuke-lessons-in-diplomacy-for-the-new-us-ambassador-with-love-from-sa-768x505.jpeg",640,421,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226077-rebuke-lessons-in-diplomacy-for-the-new-us-ambassador-with-love-from-sa.jpeg",640,421,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226077-rebuke-lessons-in-diplomacy-for-the-new-us-ambassador-with-love-from-sa.jpeg",900,592,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226077-rebuke-lessons-in-diplomacy-for-the-new-us-ambassador-with-love-from-sa.jpeg",900,592,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226077-rebuke-lessons-in-diplomacy-for-the-new-us-ambassador-with-love-from-sa.jpeg",900,592,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226077-rebuke-lessons-in-diplomacy-for-the-new-us-ambassador-with-love-from-sa-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226077-rebuke-lessons-in-diplomacy-for-the-new-us-ambassador-with-love-from-sa-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}