{"id":6194,"date":"2020-12-13T08:19:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T13:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2020-12-13T08:20:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T13:20:25","slug":"6194","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6194","title":{"rendered":"Late season rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6196\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6196\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/E01F9938-29D5-4281-86F0-27D8469F39AD-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/E01F9938-29D5-4281-86F0-27D8469F39AD-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/E01F9938-29D5-4281-86F0-27D8469F39AD-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/E01F9938-29D5-4281-86F0-27D8469F39AD-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/E01F9938-29D5-4281-86F0-27D8469F39AD.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stormy afternoon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It continues to rain off and on &#8211; we had a huge thunder and lightning rain storm one day that ushered in a day of cooler air, which was nice, and another morning storm. I\u2019m sure the bats are quite confused.<\/p>\n<p>Liberian national elections were this week; the government declared a holiday for our local staff. We also scheduled down visa appointments, so it was a slightly quieter week.<\/p>\n<p>We went to a small (socially distanced\/masked) dinner at Angler\u2019s this week to celebrate a military colleague\u2019s promotion &#8211; it\u2019s outdoor setting by the ocean makes for a nice evening. We spent a lot of time with this particular colleague during our long hours at the airport doing repatriation flights back in the spring; it was good to enjoy an evening with him under less stressful circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>I had a good video chat with Pam and Jackie yesterday, although we missed Ann. John and I are enjoying a nice weekend; I haven\u2019t left the house and don\u2019t intend to!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6195\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6195\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/B609E64A-E458-473C-8584-03C89A70A39A-e1607865551457-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/B609E64A-E458-473C-8584-03C89A70A39A-e1607865551457-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/B609E64A-E458-473C-8584-03C89A70A39A-e1607865551457-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John brought flowers for me<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It continues to rain off and on &#8211; we had a huge thunder and lightning rain storm one day that ushered in a day of cooler air, which was nice, and another morning storm. I\u2019m sure the bats are quite confused. Liberian national elections were this week; the government declared a holiday for our local [&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\/6194"}],"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=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6199,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}