{"id":31,"date":"2007-06-15T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:37:10","slug":"in-the-home-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"In the home stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We finished our classes yesterday and are at the end of our 7-week orientation! This morning we&#8217;ll head downtown for our swearing in ceremony, along with John&#8217;s parents, Pete and Ginger, who drove in yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Being pushed out of the nest is both exciting and scary! Now we start actual training classes (Spanish, cultural studies and how to be a consular officer), as well navigating the bureaucracy (getting our new passports and visas). We&#8217;ve met a couple of co-workers who will be in Ciudad Juarez with us and had good communication with folks already at post &#8211; everyone seems really nice.<\/p>\n<p>Wish us luck this morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finished our classes yesterday and are at the end of our 7-week orientation! This morning we&#8217;ll head downtown for our swearing in ceremony, along with John&#8217;s parents, Pete and Ginger, who drove in yesterday. Being pushed out of the nest is both exciting and scary! Now we start actual training classes (Spanish, cultural studies [&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\/31"}],"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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}