{"id":5886,"date":"2019-11-10T08:46:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5886"},"modified":"2019-11-10T08:46:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T13:46:29","slug":"talking-to-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5886","title":{"rendered":"Talking to goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5891\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5891\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5891\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/3AD60D8D-791E-40CB-8F61-B950FD4EFA36-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/3AD60D8D-791E-40CB-8F61-B950FD4EFA36-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/3AD60D8D-791E-40CB-8F61-B950FD4EFA36-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/3AD60D8D-791E-40CB-8F61-B950FD4EFA36.jpeg 2036w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talking to goats<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had a fun outing yesterday to southern Maryland to meet Tammy\u2019s family at her brother\u2019s house in the country. It was lovely and (squeee!) they have goats! We loved their family and finally got to meet her two sons (we had met her daughter once before briefly). There was lots of food, fun, and laughter (and did I mention goats?!). We were so happy to be included.<\/p>\n<p>Monday evening, our old friends Missy and Sofia from Juarez came by for a drink &#8211; we hadn\u2019t seen them in years. They are so sweet and fun, and just made us laugh so hard &#8211; and made us miss our fun Juarez days.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday morning, my former boss Ian was in town from Baghdad and stopped in for coffee, along with his wife Michelle. We had a great time catching up for a couple of hours. Later that evening, the junior officer formerly in Bermuda came over with her adorable nine-month-old for a while &#8211; it was fun to get caught up with her in between her assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night I met the Pink Ladies for a drink &#8211; it was a small group, but I finally met a woman who I\u2019ve known via email for years! She was in London when I was in Pakistan, and we sometimes had visa case overlap &#8211; it\u2019s always need to put a face with a name!<\/p>\n<p>I went to the doctor on Wednesday for my final visit to him before moving!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5890\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5890\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5890\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/7D29B9F5-830C-4D0D-ABDA-770AB91582A5-e1573393472793-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/7D29B9F5-830C-4D0D-ABDA-770AB91582A5-e1573393472793-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/7D29B9F5-830C-4D0D-ABDA-770AB91582A5-e1573393472793-768x1022.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/7D29B9F5-830C-4D0D-ABDA-770AB91582A5-e1573393472793-769x1024.jpeg 769w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selfie with Tammy<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5889\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5889\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5889\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1D40301D-11C6-4DD9-B8FE-B6F2358E163B-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1D40301D-11C6-4DD9-B8FE-B6F2358E163B-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1D40301D-11C6-4DD9-B8FE-B6F2358E163B-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1D40301D-11C6-4DD9-B8FE-B6F2358E163B-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tammy\u2019s family<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5888\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5888\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/913F4521-0ADE-4C8A-B0D9-096B1D8A9CD3-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/913F4521-0ADE-4C8A-B0D9-096B1D8A9CD3-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/913F4521-0ADE-4C8A-B0D9-096B1D8A9CD3-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/913F4521-0ADE-4C8A-B0D9-096B1D8A9CD3-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I want a goat!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a fun outing yesterday to southern Maryland to meet Tammy\u2019s family at her brother\u2019s house in the country. It was lovely and (squeee!) they have goats! We loved their family and finally got to meet her two sons (we had met her daughter once before briefly). There was lots of food, fun, and [&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\/5886"}],"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=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5892,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions\/5892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}