{"id":418,"date":"2009-05-10T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T17:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:46","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-420\" title=\"0112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/0112.jpg\" alt=\"0112\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0112.jpg 448w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0112-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had a great birthday on Friday. Sweet Martha and Ali Petit decorated my cubie with balloons, and my NIV manager baked me a surprise cake. I got lots of great emails and hugs, and to top it off, John took me out for a steak dinner. It was one of my favorite birthdays in a long time!<\/p>\n<p>We were off work last Monday for swine flu and Tuesday was a holiday. I kept busy on Monday getting a new officer and his toddler across the border and settled in their new home. On Tuesday, he and I went back across the border to get him stocked up on supplies.<\/p>\n<p>John and finished watching &#8220;The Wire&#8221; series &#8211; it was so good that I&#8217;m sad we finished it!<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, I started my new rotation in American Citizen Services (ACS). I love it so far. For starters, I have a nice big cubie with a window. Right now, I&#8217;m just learning to adjudicate passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad for Americans who have children in Mexico. So far the workload is fairly light and it&#8217;s nice to have a bit of time to work on other projects, too. Lots to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we pretty much lazed about the house. The heat is coming back\u00a0&#8211; already up in the high 90s &#8211; and John has re-started his efforts on the yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great birthday on Friday. Sweet Martha and Ali Petit decorated my cubie with balloons, and my NIV manager baked me a surprise cake. I got lots of great emails and hugs, and to top it off, John took me out for a steak dinner. It was one of my favorite birthdays in [&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\/418"}],"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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}