{"id":55,"date":"2007-08-12T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T15:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:37:10","slug":"more-fun-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"More fun in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday night, John and I went to hear one of our favorite bands, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gipsykings.com\/\">Gipsy Kings<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolftrap.org\/\">Wolf Trap<\/a>. It&#8217;s a gorgeous venue &#8211; I had only been there once back in the &#8217;80s when my friend Kayren and I went to see Joan Baez. It was a sold out crowd and was a lot of fun, despite the heat.<\/p>\n<p>John went to a party last night, but I just couldn&#8217;t recover from the disco nap I took, so I stayed home to watch a movie (<em>Venus<\/em>, with Peter O&#8217;Toole) with the cats. He had a great time and met a lot of new folks. Today we are heading to a class cookout to say goodbye to a classmate going to Singapore. We also went to a happy hour in Dupont Circle Thursday night to say &#8216;bye to another classmate going to Algiers.<\/p>\n<p>Noodle is so much fun these days without his Prozac! He is so playful, it cracks us up.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing much to report&#8230;just issuing passports! I&#8217;ve dreamed about it several nights. One day last week, we had a walk-through by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/s\/d\/\">Deputy Secretary John Negroponte<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/biog\/6297.htm\">Assistant Secretary Maury Harty<\/a> (whom I just adore).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday night, John and I went to hear one of our favorite bands, the Gipsy Kings at Wolf Trap. It&#8217;s a gorgeous venue &#8211; I had only been there once back in the &#8217;80s when my friend Kayren and I went to see Joan Baez. It was a sold out crowd and was a lot [&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\/55"}],"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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3746,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}