{"id":292429,"date":"2019-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/san-diego-diplomacy-council-seeking-host-families\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T08:00:00","slug":"san-diego-diplomacy-council-seeking-host-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/san-diego-diplomacy-council-seeking-host-families\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Diplomacy Council seeking host families"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The San Diego Diplomacy Council is currently looking for six local families to host business leaders from Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia coming to California on a fellowship program. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the program hosts young professionals between the ages from 25-35 who are up-and-coming leaders in their countries.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>According to Heidi Knuff, the director of custom programs and services for the council, the professionals are fluent in English and are in San Diego to work 40 hours a week with local companies. They have stipends for public transportation, and host families are only asked to give them access for breakfast and dinner meals in their home.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;The idea is to see what life in San Diego is like,&rdquo; Knuff said. &ldquo;Host families can show them around San Diego if they&#8217;d like to.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Knuff said that while there are benefits such as tax write-offs for the host families, most people do it for the experience and the friendships. A lot of host families &mdash; like&nbsp;<span>Isela and David Rouillard &mdash; end up hosting again and again. The&nbsp;<\/span>Rouillards have been volunteering for 10 years, hosting diplomats from places like Nepal, Turkey, and Russia.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;It brings the world to your home,&rdquo; Isela Rouillard said. &ldquo;I&#8217;m not going to have time in my life to visit every single country in the world, but maybe they could come to me.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Anyone interesting in learning more about the program and signing up to be a host family can email Knuff at<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"mailto:heidi@sandiegodiplomacy.org\">heidi@sandiegodiplomacy.org<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Diplomacy Council is currently looking for six local families to host business leaders from Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia coming to California on a fellowship program. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the program hosts young professionals between the ages from 25-35 who are up-and-coming leaders in their countries.&nbsp; &nbsp; According [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":292430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"San Diego Diplomacy Council seeking host families","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}