{"id":17633,"date":"2026-01-13T05:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/australian-ambassador-announced-to-be-leaving-role-weeks-after-trumps-public-jab\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T05:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:22:11","slug":"australian-ambassador-announced-to-be-leaving-role-weeks-after-trumps-public-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/australian-ambassador-announced-to-be-leaving-role-weeks-after-trumps-public-jab\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian ambassador announced to be leaving role weeks after Trump&#8217;s public jab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian ambassador to the U.S. will be leaving his role in March &#8212; an announcement made a few weeks after President Trump slammed him. &ldquo;It is with deep appreciation for his tireless contribution to our national interests over the last three years in Washington that we today announce the Hon Dr Kevin Rudd AC&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5685687-australian-ambassador-rudd-leaving\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian ambassador to the U.S. will be leaving his role in March &#8212; an announcement made a few weeks after President Trump slammed him. &ldquo;It is with deep appreciation for his tireless contribution to our national interests over the last three years in Washington that we today announce the Hon Dr Kevin Rudd AC&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}