{"id":5581,"date":"2019-01-06T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T16:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5581"},"modified":"2019-01-06T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T16:04:47","slug":"welcome-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5581","title":{"rendered":"Welcome 2019!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5582\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5582\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2F1A3C54-F2BF-41EC-8829-1DD3F058CD94-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2F1A3C54-F2BF-41EC-8829-1DD3F058CD94-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2F1A3C54-F2BF-41EC-8829-1DD3F058CD94-768x1023.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2F1A3C54-F2BF-41EC-8829-1DD3F058CD94-769x1024.jpeg 769w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2F1A3C54-F2BF-41EC-8829-1DD3F058CD94.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy New Year!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We rang in the new year at our friend Amy\u2019s house with a nice small gathering. We met some interesting new folks and had a great time &#8211; we even stayed up past midnight, believe it or not! \u00a0New Year\u2019s Day we went to my friend Matthew\u2019s house for an afternoon drop-in, with lots of Foreign Service folks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5584\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5584\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5584\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5223435E-B7CC-4767-8DCC-75755757ED1E-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5223435E-B7CC-4767-8DCC-75755757ED1E-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5223435E-B7CC-4767-8DCC-75755757ED1E-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5223435E-B7CC-4767-8DCC-75755757ED1E-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5223435E-B7CC-4767-8DCC-75755757ED1E.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Amy and Donna<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5583\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5583\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5583\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EAF9E549-30F5-4320-A599-64E249D7F19E-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EAF9E549-30F5-4320-A599-64E249D7F19E-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EAF9E549-30F5-4320-A599-64E249D7F19E-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EAF9E549-30F5-4320-A599-64E249D7F19E.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy\u2019s kitty Monty with his party hat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was off on vacation this week, while John is still furloughed. Wednesday, I met my friend Wendy for lunch at the Lost Dog Cafe in Arlington, a cute restaurant that donates part of its profits to animal rescue (it\u2019s on the same block as their sister restaurant, the Stray Cat Cafe). \u00a0Later on Wednesday, Brett, Lara, and Claire came over for board games (we went to Brett and Lara\u2019s wedding in Chicago in November).<\/p>\n<p>John and I had shopping day on Thursday, plus went to the car dealership to pick up a new battery for the 4Runner. I\u2019m on a kick to find a new laptop and have spent way too much time poring over the specs and prices, haha.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we drove out to Middleburg, Virginia, to have lunch at the Salamander Resort. Middleburg is a quaint little town in the middle of upscale horse country. We poked around a couple of shops after lunch &#8211; nice to get out of the city a little bit!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5585\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5585\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5585\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2179FF5F-670E-4D99-AF42-3D20AB75E28C-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2179FF5F-670E-4D99-AF42-3D20AB75E28C-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2179FF5F-670E-4D99-AF42-3D20AB75E28C-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2179FF5F-670E-4D99-AF42-3D20AB75E28C-768x768.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2179FF5F-670E-4D99-AF42-3D20AB75E28C-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2179FF5F-670E-4D99-AF42-3D20AB75E28C.jpeg 1772w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Party!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5586\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5586\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CC3754F8-B3D9-4AF0-BB63-F2E5D7C026D0-e1546790590301-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CC3754F8-B3D9-4AF0-BB63-F2E5D7C026D0-e1546790590301-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CC3754F8-B3D9-4AF0-BB63-F2E5D7C026D0-e1546790590301-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sloth\u2019s HNY<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5587\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5587\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5587\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/762A02C6-F482-4C58-A1F4-F070B0A4EFA1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/762A02C6-F482-4C58-A1F4-F070B0A4EFA1-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/762A02C6-F482-4C58-A1F4-F070B0A4EFA1-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/762A02C6-F482-4C58-A1F4-F070B0A4EFA1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flavie doesn\u2019t know what all the fuss is about.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We rang in the new year at our friend Amy\u2019s house with a nice small gathering. We met some interesting new folks and had a great time &#8211; we even stayed up past midnight, believe it or not! \u00a0New Year\u2019s Day we went to my friend Matthew\u2019s house for an afternoon drop-in, with lots of [&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\/5581"}],"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=5581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5588,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581\/revisions\/5588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}