{"id":5347,"date":"2018-08-05T07:57:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2018-08-05T07:57:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T11:57:13","slug":"finally-a-sunny-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5347","title":{"rendered":"Finally a sunny day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been quite rainy all week, so yesterday\u2019s sun was a welcome (but hot!) sight. \u00a0Claire introduced me to a huge flea market in Courthouse &#8211; we had a blast poking through all the stuff. \u00a0I ended up with a lovely new pen hand-tooled by a former ambassador who had a little booth set up there, and Claire found a washbowl and pitcher &#8211; success!<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, John and I took the Circulator (my favorite mode of transportation here!) up to U Street. \u00a0We had a delish Mexican brunch, then poked around some stores before heading home.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been watching \u201cSharp Objects\u201d on HBO this week, based on a Gillian Flynn book we read several years ago; we also enjoyed \u201cBeirut\u201d and totally loved Patricia Clarkson in \u201cThe Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, Rick and Claire came for burgers along with Rick\u2019s darling, smart daughter Erin &#8211; we\u2019re so happy to have them in DC!<\/p>\n<p>Good thoughts going to to Mike Bobo\u2019s mom, Liz, who\u2019s in the hospital in Ft. Worth.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5348\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5348\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5348\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/337A8BF4-096C-4DA2-83C7-B07F045492AB-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/337A8BF4-096C-4DA2-83C7-B07F045492AB-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/337A8BF4-096C-4DA2-83C7-B07F045492AB-768x511.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/337A8BF4-096C-4DA2-83C7-B07F045492AB-1024x682.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liz and Ramona &#8211; doing our hairs, Hope, AR circa 1980<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5349\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5349\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/5D109C8C-2617-40D7-B352-95D89BA5909B-219x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/5D109C8C-2617-40D7-B352-95D89BA5909B-219x300.jpeg 219w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/5D109C8C-2617-40D7-B352-95D89BA5909B-768x1054.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/5D109C8C-2617-40D7-B352-95D89BA5909B-746x1024.jpeg 746w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liz and Ramona &#8211; doing our hairs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been quite rainy all week, so yesterday\u2019s sun was a welcome (but hot!) sight. \u00a0Claire introduced me to a huge flea market in Courthouse &#8211; we had a blast poking through all the stuff. \u00a0I ended up with a lovely new pen hand-tooled by a former ambassador who had a little booth set up [&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\/5347"}],"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=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5350,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}