{"id":5393,"date":"2018-09-16T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T11:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5393"},"modified":"2018-09-16T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T11:13:08","slug":"family-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5393","title":{"rendered":"Family &#038; friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5395\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5395\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/3BD57B48-BD79-4D0F-91DF-3F3DBC412009-300x229.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/3BD57B48-BD79-4D0F-91DF-3F3DBC412009-300x229.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/3BD57B48-BD79-4D0F-91DF-3F3DBC412009-768x587.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/3BD57B48-BD79-4D0F-91DF-3F3DBC412009-1024x783.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brothers &amp; board games<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week was full of family and friends! We had a great drive-by visit from John\u2019s brother Phillip &#8211; he was in town for work and stayed with us for one night. We enjoyed having a meal together here at the apartment, then he and John broke out the board games!<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday after work I met my friend Tammy for a glass of wine and to talk about bidding for our next jobs &#8211; bidding season opens tomorrow and, of course, everyone is getting anxious about it (I know we are!).<\/p>\n<p>Thursday after work we had a well-attended A-100 happy hour at Circa. Several folks came who we had not seen in years &#8211; so fun! Afterward, John and I went to dinner with Joe and our good friend Jimmi at Ris (where we had an excellent meal).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5396\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5396\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/9261CBC0-ABC2-48DA-A00E-8600A4FFCFB5-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/9261CBC0-ABC2-48DA-A00E-8600A4FFCFB5-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/9261CBC0-ABC2-48DA-A00E-8600A4FFCFB5-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/9261CBC0-ABC2-48DA-A00E-8600A4FFCFB5-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe and John<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Saturday we met Jimmi for lunch in Georgetown, then we went on a walking tour with the author of the book, \u201cThe Georgetown Set.\u201d It was fascinating &#8211; we walked the neighborhood and heard stories about the people who inhabited the various houses back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s &#8211; like Catharine Graham, Allen Dulles, John Kennedy, Jackie O., Pamela Harriman and more.<\/p>\n<p>Last night we had a fun (and tasty) dinner at Rick and Claire\u2019s &#8211; she made some traditional English fare, including Eaton Mess: smashed meringues with strawberries and whipped cream &#8211; \u00a0yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was full of family and friends! We had a great drive-by visit from John\u2019s brother Phillip &#8211; he was in town for work and stayed with us for one night. We enjoyed having a meal together here at the apartment, then he and John broke out the board games! Wednesday after work I [&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\/5393"}],"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=5393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5397,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions\/5397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}