{"id":6113,"date":"2020-08-23T04:27:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T08:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2020-08-23T04:27:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T08:27:12","slug":"rainy-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6113","title":{"rendered":"Rainy season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6116\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6116\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6116\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/A69DFC05-BAA5-404B-8CDB-5ED8E1F6D02E-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/A69DFC05-BAA5-404B-8CDB-5ED8E1F6D02E-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/A69DFC05-BAA5-404B-8CDB-5ED8E1F6D02E.jpeg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanks, Hendrix!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although we had lots of rain and loud storms a couple of months ago, August has been relatively dry and cooler. The locals say it means September will be really rainy &#8211; we\u2019ll see. I was prepared for constant downpours in July and August, but it hasn\u2019t really happened.<\/p>\n<p>I had a couple of calls this week with work colleagues around the world. The first was with a very kind and generous local staff employee in one of our embassies in east Africa &#8211; she walked me through the complicated process of doing an inter-country adoption \u201cfrom scratch\u201d so I could attend to an adopting couple this week. The other was with my new regional consular officer (the job I used to have), who is just getting settled in Frankfurt. I love having supportive colleagues ready to help!<\/p>\n<p>John and I were guests of the Swedish ambassador, their new management\/consular officer, and his husband at lunch on Monday. We ate outdoors at a local restaurant and had a lovely visit. It was the first restaurant we\u2019d been to since the pandemic started and it felt both odd and good to be out.<\/p>\n<p>Last night we were invited to dinner on the veranda hosted by Alyson and Rick at the CMR (chief of mission residence) &#8211; it was a bigger group than last weekend. I sat across from the deputy country director for USAID, and enjoyed getting to know her better. It\u2019s such a pretty setting by the ocean and hearing the waves crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we had lots of rain and loud storms a couple of months ago, August has been relatively dry and cooler. The locals say it means September will be really rainy &#8211; we\u2019ll see. I was prepared for constant downpours in July and August, but it hasn\u2019t really happened. I had a couple of calls [&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\/6113"}],"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=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6117,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions\/6117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}