{"id":3258,"date":"2008-05-30T09:42:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T13:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2008\/05\/30\/hopeful-news-item-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T16:18:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T20:18:06","slug":"hopeful-news-item-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2008\/05\/30\/hopeful-news-item-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopeful News Item of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/media\/ALeqM5izGgr-Kac4zg1YdVuekTVjduY7Rg?size=s\" align=\"left\" \/><big>MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) \u2014 Bahrain&#8217;s king has appointed a woman believed to be the Arab world&#8217;s first Jewish ambassador as the country&#8217;s envoy to Washington.<\/big><\/p>\n<p><big>Lawmaker Houda Nonoo said she was proud to serve<br \/>\nher country &#8220;first of all as a Bahraini,&#8221; adding she was not chosen for the post because of her religion.<\/big><\/p>\n<p><big>&#8220;It is a great honor to have been appointed as the first female ambassador to the United States of America and I am looking forward to meeting this new challenge,&#8221; Nonoo told The Associated Press by telephone.<\/big><\/p>\n<p><big><br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n<p><big>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gnmjWxEZLNuKURv-bZMpsYNdmstQD90VGT1O0\">AP<\/a><\/big><\/p>\n<p><big><em>Bravo for Bahraini Houda NoNoo, but Alec Trebeck is calling &#8211; he wants to buy back a vowel.<\/em><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) \u2014 Bahrain&#8217;s king has appointed a woman believed to be the Arab world&#8217;s first Jewish ambassador as the country&#8217;s envoy to Washington. Lawmaker Houda Nonoo said she was proud to serve her country &#8220;first of all as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2008\/05\/30\/hopeful-news-item-of-the-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[588,1442,576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-serious-news","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}