{"id":6007,"date":"2020-03-29T17:57:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T21:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2020-03-29T18:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T22:00:42","slug":"hands-washing-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6007","title":{"rendered":"Hands&#8230;.washing hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A highlight of the week was my friend Pam sending me a video of Neil Diamond (one of my all-time favorites) singing \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d with substituted lyrics. Thanks, Pam! Google it and see for yourself!<\/p>\n<p>We had 12 hours notice to pull together a small evacuation flight for U.S. citizens in Liberia this week. My small team and I spent all day Wednesday getting high-risk folks into the embassy to process paperwork, then met them at the airport that evening to board a plane. It was a bit eerie since the airport is officially closed; we had the place to ourselves. We arrived around 10 PM expecting a 3:30 AM departure&#8230;but long story short, the plane didn\u2019t take off until 830 AM. \u00a0John and I spent the night in the airport lobby with DOD colleagues waiting for take-off and holding our breath until the plane was wheels up. After a short nap and a shower, I was back at work that afternoon&#8230;and it hasn\u2019t stopped since.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re preparing for another flight, should one happen, to get U.S. citizens back to the United States. We\u2019re pooped after working all weekend. \u00a0Fingers crossed we can get some more U.S. citizens back to America this week!<\/p>\n<p>On the upside&#8230;life goes on. Our dear friend Mary learned she will be a grandmother this fall! Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highlight of the week was my friend Pam sending me a video of Neil Diamond (one of my all-time favorites) singing \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d with substituted lyrics. Thanks, Pam! Google it and see for yourself! We had 12 hours notice to pull together a small evacuation flight for U.S. citizens in Liberia this week. My [&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\/6007"}],"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=6007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6009,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions\/6009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}