{"id":62,"date":"2007-09-09T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T13:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:37:09","slug":"theres-never-a-lull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There&#8217;s never a lull&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our excitement for the week came in the form of an interview with a reporter from the LA Times. Someone in the Consular Affairs front office (i.e., executive office) asked John and me if we would be willing to be interviewed for a story about the passport backlog. So we, along with a couple of other people, visited with the reporter for about\u00a030 minutes. You can read John&#8217;s on-record comment in the article\u00a0in last Saturday&#8217;s <a title=\"LA Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/los-angeles-times-officials-declare-passport-backlog-over.pdf\">LA Times<\/a>\u00a0and confirm my age while you&#8217;re there (thanks a lot).<\/p>\n<p>The other big highlight of the week came earlier, on Labor Day, when John and I drove about 20 miles to find a Sam&#8217;s Club\/Wal-Mart combo. Yes, it&#8217;s pathetic, but I am just not a Target girl, and Costco doesn&#8217;t have the big container of Ranch dressing mix that I need to make Leslie&#8217;s famous taco soup. I was happy&#8230;aaah!<\/p>\n<p>Most nights I stayed home this week, except for a going away dinner for our friend Syllie. John went to a magic club meeting in Maryland, and he also had dinner out one night with our friend Richard. I met a fellow this week who is in the class behind us &#8211; he was the attorney on the deal when Fidelity bought Alltel a few years ago. Small world &#8211; and now he&#8217;s an entry-level officer like us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our excitement for the week came in the form of an interview with a reporter from the LA Times. Someone in the Consular Affairs front office (i.e., executive office) asked John and me if we would be willing to be interviewed for a story about the passport backlog. So we, along with a couple of [&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\/62"}],"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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3742,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/3742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}