{"id":33,"date":"2007-06-17T18:57:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T23:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:37:10","slug":"sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Sworn In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"With Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Kathleen Stephens\" href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/100_2707.JPG\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/100_2707.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-243\" title=\"100_2707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/100_2707-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>With Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/biog\/81628.htm\">Kathleen Stephens<\/a>, our class mentor<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, I guess it&#8217;s official! We were officially sworn in as FSO&#8217;s on Friday with Under Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/biog\/6198.htm\">Nick Burns<\/a> doing the honors. We were happy to have John&#8217;s parents, Pete and Ginger, here for the occasion, and got the chance to introduce them to classmates during the reception beforehand. We celebrated with dinner at our favorite restaurant, Harry&#8217;s (home of a great martini).<\/p>\n<p>We spent Saturday sightseeing with Pete and Ginger, doing a city tour in the morning and going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodiestheexhibition.com\/bodies.html\">Bodies<\/a> exhibit in the afternoon (this is a cool exhibit with real human bodies &#8211; I really can&#8217;t even describe it).<\/p>\n<p>I read a wonderful book last week, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Water for Elephants<\/span> by Sara Gruen. It&#8217;s a great read about a man who worked in a traveling circus during the Depression. It&#8217;s basically a love story, told via flashbacks from his current days in a nursing home.<\/p>\n<p>The cats are doing well &#8211; Flavia still likes to sleep under the bed, but comes out when we are home.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"100_2704.JPG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/100_2704.JPG\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/100_2704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-244\" title=\"100_2704\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/100_2704-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>With one of my favorite classmates, Marcy (Sao Paulo)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Kathleen Stephens, our class mentor So, I guess it&#8217;s official! We were officially sworn in as FSO&#8217;s on Friday with Under Secretary Nick Burns doing the honors. We were happy to have John&#8217;s parents, Pete and Ginger, here for the occasion, and got the chance to introduce them to classmates [&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\/33"}],"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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}