{"id":6163,"date":"2020-11-01T03:25:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T08:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6163"},"modified":"2020-11-01T03:25:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T08:25:42","slug":"happy-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6163","title":{"rendered":"Happy Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6165\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6165\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/657B239E-14C2-429B-A2B6-E844B3ACE2B7-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/657B239E-14C2-429B-A2B6-E844B3ACE2B7-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/657B239E-14C2-429B-A2B6-E844B3ACE2B7.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A peninsula of trash mars the view of gladiolas and ocean at a particularly stinky part of town where raw sewage and trash flow into the ocea.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a beautiful full moon last night and the bats returned to the embassy compound this week &#8211; happy Halloween! The embassy had a nice socially distanced Halloween get-together on the patio at the Ambassador\u2019s residence at sunset yesterday that everyone enjoyed &#8211; especially the kids who\u2019ve been cooped up at home with on-line classes. There were fun costumes and some much-needed social interaction for all &#8211; and how could you not have fun with the ocean view from there and a lovely breeze?<\/p>\n<p>I tried to go to an arts fair yesterday, but it was indoors with no A\/C and I just got too hot and had to leave &#8211; dry season is definitely coming back. I headed in to work to continue working on an adoption case. Afterward, I had a nice, long video chat with my good friend Cathy who\u2019s now working in Canada &#8211; it was great to catch up with her.<\/p>\n<p>The work week was pretty calm with a few conference calls. Our team also did a malfeasance prevention training which prompted some interesting discussion. I stopped by for a quick hello at a rooftop happy hour with some co-workers Friday on the way home at sunset, which was nice. We\u2019re lucky we have outdoor spaces and the weather that lets us have a few get-togethers but be safe about it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful full moon last night and the bats returned to the embassy compound this week &#8211; happy Halloween! The embassy had a nice socially distanced Halloween get-together on the patio at the Ambassador\u2019s residence at sunset yesterday that everyone enjoyed &#8211; especially the kids who\u2019ve been cooped up at home with on-line [&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\/6163"}],"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=6163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}