{"id":6170,"date":"2020-11-08T04:50:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2020-11-08T04:50:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T09:50:11","slug":"happy-birthday-john-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6170","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, John!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6171\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6171\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6171\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/F153FA91-3963-485B-B350-965EE138272D-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/F153FA91-3963-485B-B350-965EE138272D-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/F153FA91-3963-485B-B350-965EE138272D-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/F153FA91-3963-485B-B350-965EE138272D.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy birthday!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>John celebrated a birthday this week! Pablo organized a nice get-together on the embassy balcony and we had cake to celebrate. John fell for his ruse to get him down there and had a pleasant surprise. Shortly after that, his assistant organized another pop-up celebration complete with more cake and singing by his local staff employees &#8211; fun!<\/p>\n<p>It was a long election week, and now the hard part begins. Hopefully we will enjoy a peaceful transition of power despite the rhetoric of the last few days; I hope Biden and Harris can bring Americans together again over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>I had a good video call with Pam, Jackie, and Ann last Sunday and Pam took us on a tour of her wonderful new house! I\u2019m thrilled for her, and especially love the location &#8211; a lovely street very near our good friends Bruce and Beth.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday was Liberian Thanksgiving. I worked most of the day trying to get caught up, then John and I met the new IT officer and his #2 for dinner outside at Mamba Point Hotel. They\u2019re both really nice and we had a good evening.<\/p>\n<p>I worked yesterday, then we had our neighbors Michael and Karisa up for a game of Wingspan &#8211; fun!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AA600349-84CD-45A2-A9CB-5A31F37858D0-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AA600349-84CD-45A2-A9CB-5A31F37858D0-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AA600349-84CD-45A2-A9CB-5A31F37858D0-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AA600349-84CD-45A2-A9CB-5A31F37858D0.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John celebrated a birthday this week! Pablo organized a nice get-together on the embassy balcony and we had cake to celebrate. John fell for his ruse to get him down there and had a pleasant surprise. Shortly after that, his assistant organized another pop-up celebration complete with more cake and singing by his local staff [&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\/6170"}],"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=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6173,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions\/6173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}