{"id":5155,"date":"2018-02-04T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5155"},"modified":"2018-02-04T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T00:03:08","slug":"grenada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5155","title":{"rendered":"Grenada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5158\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/A5B6DA00-983C-4E6B-A517-5801A0C56194.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5158\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5158\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/A5B6DA00-983C-4E6B-A517-5801A0C56194-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Beach view by hotel\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/A5B6DA00-983C-4E6B-A517-5801A0C56194-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/A5B6DA00-983C-4E6B-A517-5801A0C56194-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beach view by hotel<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">I drove Ann up to Baltimore Sunday morning &#8211; it was so nice to get to visit with her!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Monday morning at 4AM I was off again, this time to Grenada, a tiny island in the eastern Caribbean. The embassy there is one of our smallest in the world, with only one American officer and five local staff. There is a large community of U.S. students there, many of them attending vet or medical school. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5160\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/FC233AE3-2008-48F3-B410-FF59F7989327.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5160\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/FC233AE3-2008-48F3-B410-FF59F7989327-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Goat in cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FC233AE3-2008-48F3-B410-FF59F7989327-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FC233AE3-2008-48F3-B410-FF59F7989327-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goat in cemetery<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">I had a good week, but like always, little time to do any sightseeing. I stayed at a nice hotel on the beach and enjoyed listening to the waves at night. <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/T68nAW7WTSasq26G2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to see my photos from the trip<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Ale \u201cPetit\u201d came to spend the weekend with us, and we\u2019ve so enjoyed seeing her! We\u2019ve served with her in Juarez, Tel Aviv, and Pakistan. And we had a bonus visit from Alex J., who we also worked with in Juarez &#8211; he\u2019s in town on his way to Kabul! So good to connect with old friends!<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5159\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/2CDFA7C0-93A3-4124-9863-91525ED83618.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5159\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5159\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/2CDFA7C0-93A3-4124-9863-91525ED83618-300x227.jpeg\" alt=\"The \u201cNice and Dandy\u201d burger shack with \u201crebellious\u201d burgers\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2CDFA7C0-93A3-4124-9863-91525ED83618-300x227.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2CDFA7C0-93A3-4124-9863-91525ED83618-1024x774.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The \u201cNice and Dandy\u201d burger shack with \u201crebellious\u201d burgers<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5161\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/044AA6B5-8FCF-44B7-B1C4-A40DDE4AC9AF-e1517788840292.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5161\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/044AA6B5-8FCF-44B7-B1C4-A40DDE4AC9AF-e1517788840292-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Grenada mailbox\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/044AA6B5-8FCF-44B7-B1C4-A40DDE4AC9AF-e1517788840292-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/044AA6B5-8FCF-44B7-B1C4-A40DDE4AC9AF-e1517788840292-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grenada mailbox<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drove Ann up to Baltimore Sunday morning &#8211; it was so nice to get to visit with her! Monday morning at 4AM I was off again, this time to Grenada, a tiny island in the eastern Caribbean. The embassy there is one of our smallest in the world, with only one American officer and [&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\/5155"}],"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=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5162,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}