{"id":2532,"date":"2019-12-31T09:31:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T09:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2019-12-31T09:35:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T09:35:29","slug":"ghani-awarded-ghazi-wazir-akbar-khan-medal-to-outgoing-u-s-ambassador-john-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=2532","title":{"rendered":"Ghani Awarded \u2018Ghazi Wazir Akbar Khan\u2019 Medal to Outgoing U.S. Ambassador John Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">(ATN News): <strong>John Bass, the outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, received \u2018Ghazi Wazir Akbar Khan\u2019 medal by President Ashraf Ghani for his services in the country, the presidential palace said in a statement. <\/strong>The presidential palace hosted the U.S. Ambassador\u2019s farewell reception ceremony on Monday evening. President Ghani praised Bass\u2019s services during his tenure in Afghanistan and made best wishes for his future endeavors. The statement added that President Ghani appreciated John Bass\u2019s efforts to strengthen and expand the friendly relations between Afghanistan and the United States, to secure peace in the country and the region, and to bring aids and contribution of his country to Afghanistan during his mission. Meanwhile, John Bass stressed that his country continues its efforts for peacebuilding in Afghanistan, the statement said.John Bass has worked as the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, 2014\u20132017, and the country\u2019s ambassador to Georgia from 2009\u20132012. Later on September 28, 2017, he was appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to Kabul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ATN News): John Bass, the outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, received \u2018Ghazi Wazir Akbar Khan\u2019 medal by President Ashraf Ghani for his services in the country, the presidential palace said in a statement. The presidential palace hosted the U.S. Ambassador\u2019s farewell reception ceremony on Monday evening. President Ghani praised Bass\u2019s services during his tenure in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}