{"id":257,"date":"2008-07-20T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:37:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:37:07","slug":"country-comes-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Country comes to town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/imgp1143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-259\" title=\"imgp1143\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/imgp1143-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>With my friend Scott in Monterrey<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/imgp1139.jpg\"><\/a>I got the opportunity to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monterrey\" target=\"_blank\">Monterrey <\/a>to work this Thursday and Friday &#8211; it was a lot of fun. Monterrey is very pretty and cosmopolitan in comparison to Ciudad Juarez, especially in the part of town where I was. Starbucks on every corner, big malls, tall buildings, late model sedans (not F-150s), etc. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quintareal.com\/eng\/idt\/79\/quinta-real-monterrey\/3-2-5,5-5-19\/\" target=\"_blank\">hotel <\/a>was quite fancy, too.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night I went to a sunset happy hour with some of the officers &#8211; we were in an outdoor rooftop bar, surrounded by the gorgeous mountains of Monterrey, great breeze, then a full moon. It was great!<\/p>\n<p>That said, I was happy to come home to Juarez. The house was empty when I got in late Friday night because John flew to Little Rock to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansasleader.com\/2005\/06\/neighbors-banding-together.html\" target=\"_blank\">Uncle Perk&#8217;s <\/a>90th birthday party. Many of you know Uncle Perk as the &#8220;hummingbird guy.&#8221; John got to see lots of his family, plus Mary, Doug, and Deb. Wish I could have been there!<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night I went to a Rotary Club meeting &#8211; I&#8217;m on a committee to help put together a\u00a0college-level symphony concert here in Juarez with a symphony from El Paso.\u00a0 There are 12 clubs here in Juarez and it was neat to hear about their charity projects &#8211; they are pretty active.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday afternoon we went to Michael and Suzanne&#8217;s house for lunch. John took me back to Corralito&#8217;s on Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Work was pretty low-key. John is already beating me in the immigrant section, doing way more cases than me each day. How does he do it???<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/imgp1139.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" title=\"imgp1139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/imgp1139-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The rooftop bar in Monterrey<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my friend Scott in Monterrey I got the opportunity to go to Monterrey to work this Thursday and Friday &#8211; it was a lot of fun. Monterrey is very pretty and cosmopolitan in comparison to Ciudad Juarez, especially in the part of town where I was. Starbucks on every corner, big malls, tall buildings, [&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\/257"}],"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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3697,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}