{"id":14442,"date":"2003-12-12T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/12\/james-brown-appointed-to-diplomatic-position\/"},"modified":"2003-12-12T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T12:32:00","slug":"james-brown-appointed-to-diplomatic-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/12\/james-brown-appointed-to-diplomatic-position\/","title":{"rendered":"James Brown Appointed To Diplomatic Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=1516&amp;ncid=1516&amp;e=2&amp;u=\/afp\/20031209\/od_afp\/us_diplomacy_offbeat_031209191307\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Powell has apparently &ldquo;appointed [James] Brown to be the first US &lsquo;secretary of soul and foreign minister of funk<\/a>,&rsquo;&rdquo; according to Yahoo.  But don&rsquo;t worry, this is only a &ldquo;fictitious&rdquo; position, granted after the Kennedy Center awards over the weekend.  I think maybe Colin had a <i>little<\/i> too much wine at the dinner&hellip; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-107123234078691041?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Colin Powell has apparently &ldquo;appointed [James] Brown to be the first US &lsquo;secretary of soul and foreign minister of funk,&rsquo;&rdquo; according to Yahoo. But don&rsquo;t worry, this is only a &ldquo;fictitious&rdquo; position, granted after the Kennedy Center awards over the weekend. I think maybe Colin had a little too much wine at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/12\/james-brown-appointed-to-diplomatic-position\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;James Brown Appointed To Diplomatic Position&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}