{"id":1192,"date":"2010-12-19T01:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T07:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:42","slug":"holidays-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Holidays? Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">To be living in the Holy Land, it sure doesn&#8217;t feel like Christmas. It&#8217;s a little cooler, actually cool enough for a sweater and a scarf, but there are no signs of the holidays. I know that\u00a0Judaism\u00a0doesn&#8217;t exactly celebrate Christmas, but even\u00a0Hanukkah came and went without fanfare (aside from the doughnuts in the lobby of our building).<\/div>\n<p>The week went by in a blur of visa interviews. We both went in to the office today to try to get caught up &#8211; I don&#8217;t know where the days go.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night was a treat &#8211; some friends of our manager in Juarez were in Tel Aviv, and we all went to dinner together. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_J._Bernstein\" target=\"_blank\">Bill <\/a>and Jane were very interesting to meet and get to know. Bill was a neurologist in Oregon until he decided to devote more time to writing. He has written a financial book on asset allocation (that John read many years ago), among others. We went to The Old Man and the Sea &#8211; it&#8217;s south of Jaffo on the ocean and sort of a local institution, very colorful with large groups of families. The food is not spectacular, but it was a lot of fun, and our guests seemed to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1197\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0010cropx.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1197\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1197\" title=\"DSC_0010cropx\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0010cropx-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0010cropx-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0010cropx-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0010cropx.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill and Jane at The Old Man &amp; the Sea<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1198\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0009x1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1198\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1198\" title=\"DSC_0009x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0009x1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0009x1-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0009x1.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Appetizers<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1199\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0004x.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1199\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1199\" title=\"DSC_0004x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0004x-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0004x-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0004x.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flavie on her climbing tree<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be living in the Holy Land, it sure doesn&#8217;t feel like Christmas. It&#8217;s a little cooler, actually cool enough for a sweater and a scarf, but there are no signs of the holidays. I know that\u00a0Judaism\u00a0doesn&#8217;t exactly celebrate Christmas, but even\u00a0Hanukkah came and went without fanfare (aside from the doughnuts in the lobby of [&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\/1192"}],"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=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}