{"id":53663,"date":"2022-10-20T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53663"},"modified":"2022-10-20T09:18:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:18:44","slug":"how-gordon-sondland-went-from-hotelier-to-ambassador-to-central-impeachment-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53663","title":{"rendered":"How Gordon Sondland went from hotelier to ambassador to central impeachment figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ambassador Gordon Sondland was standing with former President Trump in August 2019, waiting for the president of Romania to arrive for a meeting when Trump pulled out a container of Tic Tacs and ate a few.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the f\u2014, aren\u2019t you going to share?\u201d Sondland recalls asking him, prompting Trump to give Sondland a few of the mints.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you call him out on not acting like a normal person, it catches him off guard\u2014and then he kind of likes it. People do it too infrequently,\u201d Sondland writes in his upcoming book, \u201cThe Envoy: Mastering the Art of Diplomacy with Trump and the World,\u201d which The Hill obtained a copy of before its release next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ambassador Gordon Sondland was standing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53664,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53663\/revisions\/53664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}