{"id":5879,"date":"2019-11-03T12:43:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T17:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2019-11-03T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T17:44:40","slug":"getting-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5879","title":{"rendered":"Getting real"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5882\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5882\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5882\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/D92091C8-DBB2-44D8-B40A-F3F1875BE6B0-245x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/D92091C8-DBB2-44D8-B40A-F3F1875BE6B0-245x300.jpeg 245w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/D92091C8-DBB2-44D8-B40A-F3F1875BE6B0.jpeg 261w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At brunch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our big news is that I got my medical clearance back, which means we can start planning our move to Liberia in December! It\u2019s been a long time coming, and now things will start to move at light speed!<\/p>\n<p>Pam and I had a great visit! We hardly left the house &#8211; our big outing was going to see \u201cDownton Abbey\u201d at the theatre in nearby Georgetown (it was lovely). The rest of the time we just relaxed at home and watched a lot of movies. I hated to take her to the airport on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>My former colleague Brett stopped by Sunday after running the Marine Marathon &#8211; it was great to see him and hear about his life in Chicago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5880\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5880\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5880\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/46E21153-C39E-4C46-ADF2-6AB363D87681-253x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/46E21153-C39E-4C46-ADF2-6AB363D87681-253x300.jpeg 253w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/46E21153-C39E-4C46-ADF2-6AB363D87681.jpeg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Brett<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tuesday night, John and I met Patt C. and his lovely wife Lenore for dinner &#8211; I hadn\u2019t seen Patt since 1979 or so back in our Hendrix days &#8211; he is a fascinating artist and journalist (<a href=\"https:\/\/alienweeds.com\/art.html\">alienweeds.com<\/a>). We were delighted to spend time with them!<\/p>\n<p>We met our friends Rick and Claire for brunch this morning to celebrate Claire\u2019s birthday today and John\u2019s upcoming birthday on Tuesday &#8211; always great to see them!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5881\" style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5881\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5881\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/577D70D9-CB79-4A04-9E55-E1CCA2500F16-298x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/577D70D9-CB79-4A04-9E55-E1CCA2500F16-298x300.jpeg 298w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/577D70D9-CB79-4A04-9E55-E1CCA2500F16-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/577D70D9-CB79-4A04-9E55-E1CCA2500F16.jpeg 318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who knew \u201cramona\u201d is a member of the mint family?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our big news is that I got my medical clearance back, which means we can start planning our move to Liberia in December! It\u2019s been a long time coming, and now things will start to move at light speed! Pam and I had a great visit! We hardly left the house &#8211; our big outing [&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\/5879"}],"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=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5884,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions\/5884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}