{"id":1864,"date":"2012-04-28T23:48:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T05:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:15","slug":"countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1865\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0026.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1865\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1865\" title=\"DSC_0026\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0026-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0026-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0026-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0026.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air show<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thursday was Israeli Independence Day, so the Embassy was closed. I had a great time at two different parties in my building. We watched the air show from the balcony which was a lot of fun.\u00a0Dave and Shani spent Wednesday and Thursday nights with me, too. Click to see <a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/105012868629442064934\/IsraeliIndependenceDay2012?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqbpP6gm9GtEg\" target=\"_blank\">more photos from the air show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday I had brunch at Benedict&#8217;s with Rob, Bill and Diane, then Diane and I went to the shuk to pick up a few things.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I went to a fun party upstairs at Clay&#8217;s. We sat out on his balcony all evening &#8211; a really pretty night.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really in countdown mode here in Tel Aviv as my departure date gets closer &#8211; \u00a0there&#8217;s so much to do to get ready to go! I spent all day yesterday organizing everything. Luckily, most of our things were packed out when John left, but there is still a lot to do. I have to split everything between four shipments, so the house is a big mess now!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1866\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0045.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1866\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1866\" title=\"DSC_0045\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0045-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0045-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0045-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0045.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Jen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was Israeli Independence Day, so the Embassy was closed. I had a great time at two different parties in my building. We watched the air show from the balcony which was a lot of fun.\u00a0Dave and Shani spent Wednesday and Thursday nights with me, too. Click to see more photos from the air show. [&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\/1864"}],"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=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3546,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/3546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}