{"id":3259,"date":"2023-05-05T19:44:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2023-05-19T17:01:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:01:33","slug":"i-pledge-for-equal-representation-in-the-diplomatic-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/i-pledge-for-equal-representation-in-the-diplomatic-service\/","title":{"rendered":"I pledge for Equal Representation in the Diplomatic Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Equal Representation in the Diplomatic Service:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the 5th of May The Ball visited the German Embassy in Singapore and spent an hour talking to Ying Huang, Head of Culture, Press and Public Diplomacy. She signed The Ball and pledged to champion gender and ethnic representation in the diplomatic service.<\/p>\n<p>Ying Huang, Head of Culture, Press and Public Diplomacy at the German Embassy in Singapore:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My name is Ying. I am a German Diplomat and I pledge to play for equal representation of ethnicity and gender in the diplomatic service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3260\" style=\"width: 902px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3260\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/i-pledge-for-equal-representation-in-the-diplomatic-service\/ying-huang-pledge\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/Ying-Huang-pledge.png\" data-orig-size=\"902,676\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Ying Huang pledge\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/Ying-Huang-pledge.png\" class=\"wp-image-3260 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/Ying-Huang-pledge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"902\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/Ying-Huang-pledge.png 902w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/Ying-Huang-pledge-320x240.png 320w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/Ying-Huang-pledge-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/Ying-Huang-pledge-427x320.png 427w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/Ying-Huang-pledge-200x150.png 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/Ying-Huang-pledge-240x180.png 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/Ying-Huang-pledge-640x480.png 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/Ying-Huang-pledge-618x463.png 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ying Huang signs The Ball at the German Embassy Singapore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equal Representation in the Diplomatic Service: On the 5th of May The Ball visited the German Embassy in Singapore and spent an hour talking to Ying Huang, Head of Culture, Press and Public Diplomacy. She signed The Ball and pledged&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/i-pledge-for-equal-representation-in-the-diplomatic-service\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":3260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[147,64],"coauthors":[87],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-ball","tag-singapore","tag-the-ball"],"acf":[],"geo":{"latitude":1.352082999999999923801397017086856067180633544921875,"longitude":103.81983950000000049840309657156467437744140625,"description":"Singapore"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/Ying-Huang-pledge.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}