{"id":5661,"date":"2019-03-24T17:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T21:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2019-03-24T17:07:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T21:07:21","slug":"lovely-asuncion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5661","title":{"rendered":"Lovely Asuncion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5664\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5664\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/55E00EBE-B12D-4D55-94A1-3A1244FC7CC6-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/55E00EBE-B12D-4D55-94A1-3A1244FC7CC6-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/55E00EBE-B12D-4D55-94A1-3A1244FC7CC6-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/55E00EBE-B12D-4D55-94A1-3A1244FC7CC6.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lovely Asunci\u00f3n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I always enjoy going to Asuncion, even though it is super-hard to get to. It takes me a good 24 hours to get there, and slightly longer to get back, but it\u2019s worth it. It\u2019s a small but nice embassy, and I love the staff. Plus, I get to see Elise from my Juarez days, and Kathy from Guadalajara! We had our \u201cgirls\u2019 night\u201d on Wednesday at Elise\u2019s house, and, of course, Karen the consular chief joins in. It\u2019s just altogether a pleasant trip!<\/p>\n<p>John was back in Fayetteville visiting Pete and Ginger when I got home Saturday morning. I had a nail appointment, then just did laundry&#8230;and re-packed for this week\u2019s trip! I had less than 24 hours on the ground but it was worth it to have clean clothes, see Flavia, and sleep in my own bed for a night!<\/p>\n<p>John and I actually passed each other at Reagan National Airport this morning, but we were in different terminals, so we just chatted by phone later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m off again &#8211; you\u2019ll see where next Sunday!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5662\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5662\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5662\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/F23DE2FF-49A6-4B86-A5FF-82760BC0BA07-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/F23DE2FF-49A6-4B86-A5FF-82760BC0BA07-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/F23DE2FF-49A6-4B86-A5FF-82760BC0BA07-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/F23DE2FF-49A6-4B86-A5FF-82760BC0BA07.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paraguayan clay figure<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5663\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5663\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/77F16AC3-4160-4865-BCF3-0EA8BC1021DA-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/77F16AC3-4160-4865-BCF3-0EA8BC1021DA-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/77F16AC3-4160-4865-BCF3-0EA8BC1021DA-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/77F16AC3-4160-4865-BCF3-0EA8BC1021DA-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/77F16AC3-4160-4865-BCF3-0EA8BC1021DA.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paraguayan busses<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always enjoy going to Asuncion, even though it is super-hard to get to. It takes me a good 24 hours to get there, and slightly longer to get back, but it\u2019s worth it. It\u2019s a small but nice embassy, and I love the staff. Plus, I get to see Elise from my Juarez days, [&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\/5661"}],"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=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5666,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}