{"id":194504,"date":"2017-05-16T09:47:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=194504"},"modified":"2017-05-16T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T13:49:05","slug":"doug-manchester-nominated-as-ambassador-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2017\/05\/doug-manchester-nominated-as-ambassador-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Doug Manchester To Be Nominated As Ambassador To The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-194505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/doug-manchester-nominee-bahamas-ambassador.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/doug-manchester-nominee-bahamas-ambassador.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/doug-manchester-nominee-bahamas-ambassador-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/doug-manchester-nominee-bahamas-ambassador-250x148.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to nominate Doug Manchester as Ambassador to the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, \u201cPapa\u201d Doug Manchester of California will serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Manchester is a leading industrialist with accomplishments on a national and international scale in telecommunications, radio broadcast, medical instrumentation, publishing, and real estate development.\u00a0 Since 1970, he has been Chairman of Manchester Financial Group, which has multiple divisions including Manchester Grand Resorts and M Commercial Properties.\u00a0 He leads the Manchester Charitable Foundation and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of The Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute.\u00a0 Mr. Manchester earned a B.S. from San Diego State University.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Article submitted by the United States Embassy, Nassau<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span class=\"irc_su\" dir=\"ltr\">Photo via papadougmanchester.com<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to nominate Doug Manchester as Ambassador to the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":194505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[204,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}