{"id":278,"date":"2008-10-12T23:31:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T05:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:37:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:37:07","slug":"back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Back home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/imgp1209x.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/imgp1201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-277\" title=\"imgp1201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/imgp1201-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John at the Redondo Beach Pier<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had a great time visiting Aunt Bonnie and Kohlie in California last weekend. We flew home on Monday, and luckily had Tuesday off from work. That gave us time for &#8220;re-entry,&#8221; as John calls it &#8211; i.e., time to relax, get caught up and visit with Flavia.<\/p>\n<p>We watched a couple more episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/thewire\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Wire&#8221;<\/a> this week, plus the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1000774\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sex &amp; the City&#8221;<\/a> movie finally arrived from Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>It was a short, but busy, week at work. I was responsible for the logistics of a visiting computer guy, so I went to the airport on Wednesday to get him and have worked with him over the weekend doing helping him do some testing. (So much for a 3-day weekend&#8230;oh well.)\u00a0I got to visit the new Consulate building &#8211; wow &#8211; it&#8217;s really big. John&#8217;s been working out there a lot and had been telling me about it, but it was pretty amazing to see. We&#8217;re scheduled to move next month.<\/p>\n<p>On the social front, we had dinner out with the (new) visiting TDYers on Thursday night, then went to a surprise going-away dinner for a friend on Friday night who&#8217;s moving to Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/imgp1209x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-279\" title=\"imgp1209x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/imgp1209x-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0With Kohlie<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John at the Redondo Beach Pier We had a great time visiting Aunt Bonnie and Kohlie in California last weekend. We flew home on Monday, and luckily had Tuesday off from work. That gave us time for &#8220;re-entry,&#8221; as John calls it &#8211; i.e., time to relax, get caught up and visit with Flavia. We [&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\/278"}],"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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}