{"id":639578,"date":"2013-01-15T14:52:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T19:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=2a4594454655fd8cd24513de86e24976"},"modified":"2013-01-15T14:52:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T19:52:54","slug":"change-the-world-join-the-foreign-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/639578","title":{"rendered":"Change the World: Join the Foreign Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Note: This post was originally published on the Department of State <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.state.gov\/\">blog<\/a>. To see the original post, please click <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.state.gov\/index.php\/site\/entry\/change_the_world_join_the_foreign_service\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a young woman growing up in Louisiana, a career in the Foreign Service was never really on my list of life dreams &#8212; but all that changed, beginning with graduate school and a research project in Africa that opened my eyes to the possibilities of diplomatic life.<\/p>\n<p>\tSince joining the Department of State 31 years ago, I have lived and worked on four continents, traveling the world from Afghanistan to South Africa. I have witnessed the horror of genocide in Rwanda; I&#39;ve celebrated the joy of people coming out of 15 years of war to elect the first woman president in Africa. I&#39;ve never regretted those first steps out of my comfort zone and into the world of diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>\tI&#39;ve been the face of America abroad, and I&#39;ve been blessed with the opportunity to make a difference in people&#39;s lives and to represent my nation. The State Department needs the energy and passion of Americans who want a career that matters.<\/p>\n<p>\tAnd that&#39;s why we&#39;ve made this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zdh2oZ6NSgY\" title=\"video\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\tWe want to highlight and share with you some of the faces and stories of the amazing people who have made their dreams to do good in the world a reality through their career in the Foreign Service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/change-world-join-foreign-service\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: This post was originally published on the Department of State blog. To see the original post, please click here. As a young woman growing up in Louisiana, a career in the Foreign Service was never really on my list of life dreams &#8212; but all that changed, beginning with graduate school and a research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}