{"id":264,"date":"2008-08-10T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:37:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:37:07","slug":"its-not-big-its-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not big, it&#8217;s large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of the week was going to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lylelovett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lyle Lovett and his Large Band <\/a>at the <a href=\"http:\/\/theplazatheater.org\/photo_gallery_category.sstg?id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Plaza Theatre<\/a> in El Paso Friday night. I think it&#8217;s the 3rd time I&#8217;ve seen him &#8211; he&#8217;s fabulous. His band is great, although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.francine-reed.com\/index.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Francine Reed\u00a0<\/a>isn&#8217;t touring with him. But he has great musicians with him, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellkunkel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russ Kunkel <\/a>on drums (from the old days of James Taylor). Wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/theplazatheater.org\/photo_gallery_category.sstg?id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Plaza<\/a> is a beautiful old theatre that was recently restored. It&#8217;s\u00a0an ornate adobe style &#8211; my favorite thing were the twinkly stars on the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning I went to\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lascrucescvb.org\/html\/las_cruces_farmers_and_crafts_.html\" target=\"_blank\">farmers&#8217; market<\/a> again in Las Cruces to buy some local honey (delicious) while John shopped at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coasbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">used bookstore<\/a> on the square. Afterwards, we had a great lunch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadfood.com\/Reviews\/Overview.aspx?RefID=3650\" target=\"_blank\">Nopalito&#8217;s<\/a> before heading back to El Paso and Juarez.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the week was pretty low-key. We watched <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Other_Boleyn_Girl\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Other Boleyn Girl&#8221;<\/a> last night, which was pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Flavia got in bed next to me last night to watch the Olympics &#8211; she&#8217;s so cute! I think my nose is red because I &#8211; of course &#8211; got teared up at Michael Phelps&#8217; medal ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/imgp1189x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-265\" title=\"imgp1189x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/imgp1189x-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of the week was going to see Lyle Lovett and his Large Band at the Plaza Theatre in El Paso Friday night. I think it&#8217;s the 3rd time I&#8217;ve seen him &#8211; he&#8217;s fabulous. His band is great, although Francine Reed\u00a0isn&#8217;t touring with him. But he has great musicians with him, including Russ [&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\/264"}],"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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}