{"id":439,"date":"2009-06-21T15:06:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T21:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:46","slug":"heading-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Heading home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-440\" title=\"046\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/0462.JPG\" alt=\"046\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0462.JPG 448w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0462-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>With James and David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a great week in DC, I\u2019m en route to Juarez via Hot Springs \u2013 and boy, is it hot and humid here!<\/p>\n<p>My favorite cousins David and James were both in Hot Springs (David from Diego Garcia, James and Mary Beth from San Antonio), so I was quite happy to be able to see them. David and Alison had a small BBQ at their beautiful lake house, so we spent the afternoon yakking and eating. Later in the evening, we took the boat out for an evening cruise \u2013 really lovely. I was also very happy to see David\u2019s old friend Lon, who I hadn\u2019t see in ages. To see the two of them together just cracks me up.<\/p>\n<p>The class in DC was very good \u2013 glad I was able to go. One of the more interesting things we did in class was to go to the DC morgue one afternoon, and the best part of that was listening to a grief counselor talk about dealing with families of the deceased. The whole class was about working with American citizens overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Jim, Mary and I had drinks on Tuesday night with our friend\/colleague\/mentor Dean at Circle Bistro. It was great to see him \u2013 he always has good advice and he still has that mischievous smile! We were also happy to have a delicious dinner with our good friend Stephen on Monday night, too!<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night I was on my own, so I walked over the Key Bridge from the hotel and walked around Georgetown, shopping and sightseeing. I picked up some delicious Indian food and beat the rain to get back to the hotel to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday was my favorite \u2013 Harry\u2019s for dinner with Jim and Mary. I had my typical fare: martini, Cesar salad and twin tenderloins. Yum, yum.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s the week \u2013 I\u2019ll head out of Hot Springs later this afternoon. I\u2019m anxious to get home to see John and Flavia!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-441\" title=\"005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/0051.JPG\" alt=\"005\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0051.JPG 448w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0051-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stephen, Mary and Jim<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With James and David After a great week in DC, I\u2019m en route to Juarez via Hot Springs \u2013 and boy, is it hot and humid here! My favorite cousins David and James were both in Hot Springs (David from Diego Garcia, James and Mary Beth from San Antonio), so I was quite happy 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\/439"}],"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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3658,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/3658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}