{"id":1144,"date":"2010-11-07T06:31:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T12:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:42","slug":"happy-birthday-to-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to John!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1145\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0012x.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1145\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1145\" title=\"DSC_0012x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0012x-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0012x-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0012x.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaffo cat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We celebrated John&#8217;s birthday on Friday &#8211; \u00a0I had cupcakes delivered for the NIV section &#8211; quite the hit! We continued our celebration that night with a very nice dinner out at <a title=\"Kimmel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.2eat.co.il\/eng\/kimmel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kimmel<\/a>. \u00a0John had a steak; I finally had lamb, and the best eggplant (stuffed with cheese and pesto) I&#8217;ve ever had. It was a good day.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, we walked down the beach to the old port city of Jaffo. The views were beautiful. It&#8217;s known for its flea market and antique\/junk stores. Again, it&#8217;s odd, because there will be a junk store next to a high-end clothing store. When we walked back up the beach, we stopped at <a title=\"Manta Ray\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mantaray.co.il\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manta Ray<\/a> for brunch. I continued to the Carmel Market up the street to get some vegetables. It&#8217;s a beautiful day &#8211; sunny, but not too hot. Click for <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/starr.crippen\/Jaffo#\" target=\"_blank\">a few more photos of Jaffo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the week was very busy at work; in addition to all of the visa applicants, we have a lot of extra projects to work on.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1148\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0003x.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1148\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1148\" title=\"DSC_0003x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0003x-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0003x-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0003x.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Odd bird we saw on the way to Jaffo<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1149\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0006x.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1149\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1149\" title=\"DSC_0006x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0006x-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0006x-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0006x.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from Jaffo<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrated John&#8217;s birthday on Friday &#8211; \u00a0I had cupcakes delivered for the NIV section &#8211; quite the hit! We continued our celebration that night with a very nice dinner out at Kimmel. \u00a0John had a steak; I finally had lamb, and the best eggplant (stuffed with cheese and pesto) I&#8217;ve ever had. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}