{"id":4361,"date":"2016-05-29T08:34:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T13:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2016-05-29T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T13:34:34","slug":"back-to-the-grind-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=4361","title":{"rendered":"Back to the grind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4362\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_3844.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4362\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4362\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_3844-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Quito\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_3844-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_3844.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quito<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">I got back to Guadalajara last Sunday evening, and it was back to work on Monday. The conference in Quito was so fun and inspirational &#8211; the challenge is to find the time to put some of those good ideas into action! Hopefully I&#8217;ll succeed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Wednesday evening I helped with the guards&#8217; English class after work. Friday, John and I met one of his mentees, an entry-level office from Juarez and her partner, for dinner at Alcachofa, our new favorite restaurant. They have an artichoke-Alfredo fettuccine that I just love. The ladies were super nice and fun to visit with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">We&#8217;re into a three-day weekend now, and I have to admit we were pretty lazy yesterday. I&#8217;ve been fighting a cold all week, but feeling better now. We started getting caught up on &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; &#8211; so fun!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Here are a few shots from Quito. <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/photos\/ELHoYtG1gfcWxn3J8\" target=\"_blank\">To see all of my photos from Quito, click here!<\/a><\/span><div id=\"attachment_4363\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/CSC_3841.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4363\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/CSC_3841-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Highway guide\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CSC_3841-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CSC_3841.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highway guide<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4364\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_3802.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_3802-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"At the market\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_3802-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_3802.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the market<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4365\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_3790.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_3790-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Elderly woman with traditional hat\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4365\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_3790-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_3790.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elderly woman with traditional hat<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4366\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_3757.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4366\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_3757-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Snow-capped Cotopaxi volcano at sunset \" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4366\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_3757-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_3757.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow-capped Cotopaxi volcano at sunset<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4367\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_37221.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4367\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_37221-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Street-side sewing\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_37221-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_37221.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Street-side sewing<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got back to Guadalajara last Sunday evening, and it was back to work on Monday. The conference in Quito was so fun and inspirational &#8211; the challenge is to find the time to put some of those good ideas into action! Hopefully I&#8217;ll succeed. Wednesday evening I helped with the guards&#8217; English class after [&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\/4361"}],"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=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4368,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}