{"id":8128,"date":"2009-08-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/16\/president-obama-names-indian-american-as-us-ambassador-to-belize\/"},"modified":"2009-08-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T12:00:00","slug":"president-obama-names-indian-american-as-us-ambassador-to-belize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/16\/president-obama-names-indian-american-as-us-ambassador-to-belize\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Names Indian-American as U.S. Ambassador to Belize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/belizenews.com\/\">belizenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, DC, USA, June 12, 2009: President Barack Obama has chosen Indian-American businessman Vinai Thummalapally as the new United States Ambassador to Belize.<\/p>\n<p>The two are long-time friends, having been college roommates in 1980. Vinai attended Obama&#8217;s wedding in 1982 and was in Illinois in 2007 when Obama announced that he was running for President. Originally from Hyderabad in India, Vinai has a Bachelor&#8217;s Degree in mechanical engineering and is currently the president of a disc manufacturing company. The nomination will have to go through the U.S. Senate, but approval is almost certain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: belizenews.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, June 12, 2009: President Barack Obama has chosen Indian-American businessman Vinai Thummalapally as the new,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}