{"id":5344,"date":"2014-09-28T17:26:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T10:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5344"},"modified":"2014-09-28T17:27:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T10:27:02","slug":"u-s-ambassador-to-botswana-who-is-earl-r-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/u-s-ambassador-to-botswana-who-is-earl-r-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Ambassador to Botswana: Who Is Earl R. Miller?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 29, 2014, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Earl Robert Miller, a career Foreign Service officer, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Botswana. It would be the first ambassadorial post for Miller. Botswana hosts the U.S. Air Force, and the United States is the leading purchaser of Botswana\u2019s most important export: polished diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>The son of Robert James Miller and Wanda Miller, Miller attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a B.A. in journalism in 1981. He went into the U.S. Marine Corps after graduation, serving on active duty until 1984. Miller then worked as a supervisor at Arantek, a Santa Clara, California, electronics company until 1987. He continued serving in the Marine Corps Reserve until 1992, doing a tour during the first Gulf War&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Botswana News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allgov.com\/news\/appointments-and-resignations\/us-ambassador-to-botswana-who-is-earl-r-miller-140927?news=854366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 29, 2014, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Earl Robert Miller, a career Foreign Service officer, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Botswana. It would be the first ambassadorial post for Miller. Botswana hosts the U.S. Air Force, and the United States is the leading purchaser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4190,4718,4192,2462,4194,257,4193,4191,254,4693,4189,4188],"class_list":["post-5344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambassador-to-botswana","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-hosts-the-u-s-air-force","tag-botswana-news","tag-gulf-war","tag-news","tag-polished-diamonds","tag-robert-miller","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-u-s-ambassador-to-botswana","tag-u-s-ambassador-to-botswana-who-is-earl-r-miller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}