{"id":5413,"date":"2018-09-30T19:08:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T23:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2018-09-30T19:08:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T23:08:34","slug":"lovely-curacao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5413","title":{"rendered":"Lovely Curacao"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abandoned building in beautiful light<\/p><\/div>\n

Work took me to the tiny island of Curacao, off the coast of Venezuela, this week. \u00a0A former Dutch colony, there\u2019s a European feel to some parts of it, while other parts are pure Caribbean. I stay downtown where the cruise ships dock. The consulate gives me a car to drive while I\u2019m there, which means I have to drive white-knuckled over this bridge every day.<\/p>\n

I joined in the Pride parade on Thursday night, walking the short parade route with three-quarters of the consulate- and by that, I mean three of the four Americans who work there – it\u2019s a tiny place!<\/p>\n

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At Pride parade with Derek, Gil, and their twins<\/p><\/div>\n

It was a fun, short trip – I was able to be home by 5PM Friday afternoon, just in time for John to take me to a nice dinner at Ris! Click to see all of my photos from Curacao<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Abandoned building<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sunset<\/p><\/div>\n

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Taxi stays playing dominoes<\/p><\/div>\n

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Iconic view<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pink and orange<\/p><\/div>\n

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Abandoned building<\/p><\/div>\n

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View from restaurant<\/p><\/div>\n

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At a local restaurant<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Work took me to the tiny island of Curacao, off the coast of Venezuela, this week. \u00a0A former Dutch colony, there\u2019s a European feel to some parts of it, while other parts are pure Caribbean. I stay downtown where the cruise ships dock. The consulate gives me a car to drive while I\u2019m there, which […]<\/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\/5413"}],"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=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5426,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions\/5426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}