{"id":2838,"date":"2013-12-08T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T04:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/12\/08\/dave-phillips-to-be-ambassador-to-estonia\/"},"modified":"2013-12-08T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T04:56:48","slug":"dave-phillips-to-be-ambassador-to-estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/dave-phillips-to-be-ambassador-to-estonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Phillips to be ambassador to Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High Point businessman helped develop Market Square<br \/>\nHIGH POINT\u00c2\u00a0&#8212; President George W. Bush intends to                         <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nnominate longtime industry executive Dave Phillips as ambassador to Estonia, the White House said this week.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips is chairman and founder of Phillips Inds., an investment holding company that has had textile and furniture interests. He was part of the original group of three High Point businessmen that developed the Market Square showroom complex here in the early 1980s, and in 1998 sold it to Vornado Property Trust.<\/p>\n<p> He also is a former North Carolina Secretary of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, Phillips donated $75,000 to the Republican National Committee, according to the Federal Elections Commission. In 2012, he donated more than $50,000 to the committee.<\/p>\n<p>His brother, Earl \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Phil\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Phillips, president and CEO of Phillips Interests, served as ambassador to Barbados for several months starting in July 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Point businessman helped develop Market Square HIGH POINT\u00c2\u00a0&#8212; President George W. Bush intends to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}