{"id":693953,"date":"2026-03-31T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/693953\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:00:15","slug":"departing-us-ambassador-rudds-email-to-embassy-staff-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/693953\/","title":{"rendered":"Departing US ambassador Rudd&#8217;s email to embassy staff revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kevin Rudd has left his role as Australia\u2019s ambassador in Washington, concluding his posting this week. But in a note to colleagues, the former prime minister remarked, \u201cYou haven\u2019t quite gotten rid of me yet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Rudd\u2019s own words, his time in the embassy was marked by proud achievements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI want to thank each and every one of you for your hard work, professionalism and friendship over the past three years,\u201d Rudd wrote in an email to colleagues on January 12 with the subject line \u201cA personal note from me\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Rudd has left his role as Australia\u2019s ambassador in Washington, concluding his posting this week. But in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":693954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[38602,290527,4740,244741,7838,69,156604,50,80,290528],"class_list":["post-693953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-asia-society-australasia","tag-australia","tag-dfat","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-kevin-rudd","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-us-ambassador"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116321794573125177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}