{"id":5952,"date":"2020-01-12T02:11:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T07:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2020-01-12T02:11:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T07:11:16","slug":"drinking-from-the-fire-hose-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5952","title":{"rendered":"Drinking from the fire hose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5953\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5953\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3101E41E-BAFC-48AF-A376-C9CB52894673-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3101E41E-BAFC-48AF-A376-C9CB52894673-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3101E41E-BAFC-48AF-A376-C9CB52894673-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3101E41E-BAFC-48AF-A376-C9CB52894673.jpeg 1570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of our neighbors<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think John and I both feel like we\u2019re drinking from a fire hose at work, but we\u2019re enjoying it! My section (consular) started receiving TDY (temporary duty) help this past week &#8211; a lovely woman from Chad came to help us out and she has been a godsend. She works for my good friend Barb in N&#8217;djamena, and I\u2019m grateful Barb was so generous in sending her my way! A couple of the staff members and I met her at her hotel last Sunday for a welcome lunch; John and I took her to dinner last night at a nice local restaurant. She\u2019s just delightful.<\/p>\n<p>There were protests around local government buildings last Monday that got a bit rowdy at the end of the day, but nothing too bad other than a slight delay getting home.<\/p>\n<p>We went to Justin and Stephanie\u2019s Friday night for dinner and board games &#8211; they\u2019re so nice and we enjoy visiting with them.<\/p>\n<p>Time is already flying by &#8211; we hit our one-month anniversary at post this week!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think John and I both feel like we\u2019re drinking from a fire hose at work, but we\u2019re enjoying it! My section (consular) started receiving TDY (temporary duty) help this past week &#8211; a lovely woman from Chad came to help us out and she has been a godsend. She works for my good friend [&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\/5952"}],"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=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5954,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}