{"id":3476,"date":"2014-12-21T09:01:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T15:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:35:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:35:50","slug":"throwback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=3476","title":{"rendered":"Throwback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3477\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/santa-1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3477\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3477\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/santa-1-300x200.png\" alt=\"Santa gig\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/santa-1-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/santa-1.png 639w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa gig<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Last week&#8217;s socializing concluded with a nice outdoor party at the Consul General&#8217;s residence last Sunday evening. It was a nice event and a good way to top off the week.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Monday through Wednesday of this week, I filled in for the non-immigrant visa chief. It was a lot of fun to get back to NIV work; it reminded me a lot of our work back in Juarez. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Friday night we went to Ana&#8217;s house for her annual posada &#8211; she is a local staff member in my section and she has done this annual party for at least the last 25 years. It was very quaint with traditional singing and tamales.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Yesterday morning we Skyped with a young lady who is interested in the Foreign Service, which was fun. Other than that, we had a &#8220;no progress&#8221; day, a term they use back at FSI. For us, it meant ignoring all the work still left to do from unpacking; instead we watched a lot of TV and ordered a pizza &#8211; a day of recharging our batteries. We were treated to a lovely sunset at day&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3478\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_2556.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3478\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_2556-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_2556-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_2556.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s socializing concluded with a nice outdoor party at the Consul General&#8217;s residence last Sunday evening. It was a nice event and a good way to top off the week. Monday through Wednesday of this week, I filled in for the non-immigrant visa chief. It was a lot of fun to get back to [&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\/3476"}],"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=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3480,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}