{"id":5267,"date":"2018-06-10T20:48:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5267"},"modified":"2018-06-17T22:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T02:27:15","slug":"brutal-travel-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5267","title":{"rendered":"Brutal travel week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You would think it wouldn\u2019t take almost 24 hours to get from Washington D.C. to Paraguay but you\u2019d be wrong! \u00a0I flew down last Sunday (DC &#8211; Miami &#8211; Panama City &#8211; Asuncion) and flew home on Friday via Peru and Miami. \u00a0It really wore me out. \u00a0The week was good, though &#8211; it\u2019s a nice little office with good folks &#8211; and as a bonus, I saw Kathy G. from Guadalajara and Elise T. from Juarez. \u00a0We, along with the fun consular chief there, went to Kathy\u2019s house and yakked for a couple of hours Wednesday night. \u00a0The rest of the trip was just to\/from work &#8211; it\u2019s winter there, so it was dark by the time I left the Embassy at 5:30 to catch motorpool home.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, we gathered up Kristin, Brandon, and Jimmi and drove out to Herndon for a baby shower\/party for Jim Jay and Kevin\u2019s new baby at Kevin\u2019s parents\u2019 house. \u00a0There were several other A-100 folks there and we had a great time. \u00a0Afterward, Jim and Kellee met John and me at Ray\u2019s the Steaks for dinner, then we had dessert on their rooftop afterward. \u00a0Such fun!<\/p>\n<p>This morning we walked up to Dupont Circle and met Jimmi and Dave E., our friend from Israel and A-100, at KramerBooks. \u00a0It was fun getting caught up with him &#8211; we haven\u2019t seen him in years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5269\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5269\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/EC244CDC-1136-4C92-A599-E4E81ABF6F32-231x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/EC244CDC-1136-4C92-A599-E4E81ABF6F32-231x300.jpeg 231w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/EC244CDC-1136-4C92-A599-E4E81ABF6F32-768x997.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/EC244CDC-1136-4C92-A599-E4E81ABF6F32.jpeg 776w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Sarah and Jimmi<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would think it wouldn\u2019t take almost 24 hours to get from Washington D.C. to Paraguay but you\u2019d be wrong! \u00a0I flew down last Sunday (DC &#8211; Miami &#8211; Panama City &#8211; Asuncion) and flew home on Friday via Peru and Miami. \u00a0It really wore me out. \u00a0The week was good, though &#8211; it\u2019s a [&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\/5267"}],"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=5267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5272,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions\/5272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}