{"id":285227,"date":"2021-08-24T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=212505"},"modified":"2021-08-24T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T08:15:00","slug":"will-senate-democrats-stoop-to-confirming-rahm-emanuel-as-ambassador-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/24\/will-senate-democrats-stoop-to-confirming-rahm-emanuel-as-ambassador-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Senate Democrats Stoop to Confirming Rahm Emanuel as Ambassador?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When President Biden announced late Friday afternoon that he will nominate Rahm Emanuel to be the U.S. ambassador to Japan, the timing just before the weekend was clearly intended to minimize attention to the swift rebukes that were sure to come. The White House\u00a0described\u00a0Emanuel as having \u201ca distinguished career in public service,\u201d but several progressive  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/24\/will-senate-democrats-stoop-to-confirming-rahm-emanuel-as-ambassador\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/24\/will-senate-democrats-stoop-to-confirming-rahm-emanuel-as-ambassador\/\">Will Senate Democrats Stoop to Confirming Rahm Emanuel as Ambassador?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/24\/will-senate-democrats-stoop-to-confirming-rahm-emanuel-as-ambassador\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When President Biden announced late Friday afternoon that he will nominate Rahm Emanuel to be the U.S. ambassador to Japan, the timing just before the weekend was clearly intended to minimize attention to the swift rebukes that were sure to come. The W&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285299,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285227\/revisions\/285299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}