{"id":226359,"date":"2026-05-16T13:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226359"},"modified":"2026-05-16T13:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:54:45","slug":"in-scolding-the-new-u-s-ambassador-south-africa-signals-defiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226359","title":{"rendered":"In Scolding the New U.S. Ambassador, South Africa Signals Defiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest clash between the two countries illustrates the depths to which relations have sunk and the struggle to forge a new path forward&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/15\/world\/africa\/south-africa-ambassador-bozell.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest clash between the two countries illustrates the depths to which relations have sunk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226359","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\/226359-in-scolding-the-new-us-ambassador-south-africa-signals-defiance.jpg",1800,1799,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226359-in-scolding-the-new-us-ambassador-south-africa-signals-defiance-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226359-in-scolding-the-new-us-ambassador-south-africa-signals-defiance-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226359-in-scolding-the-new-us-ambassador-south-africa-signals-defiance-768x768.jpg",640,640,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226359-in-scolding-the-new-us-ambassador-south-africa-signals-defiance-1024x1024.jpg",640,640,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226359-in-scolding-the-new-us-ambassador-south-africa-signals-defiance-1536x1536.jpg",1536,1536,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226359-in-scolding-the-new-us-ambassador-south-africa-signals-defiance.jpg",1800,1799,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226359-in-scolding-the-new-us-ambassador-south-africa-signals-defiance-1024x1023.jpg",1024,1023,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226359-in-scolding-the-new-us-ambassador-south-africa-signals-defiance-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226359-in-scolding-the-new-us-ambassador-south-africa-signals-defiance-590x410.jpg",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\/226359","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=226359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}