{"id":6201,"date":"2020-12-20T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6201"},"modified":"2020-12-20T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:56:10","slug":"almost-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6201","title":{"rendered":"Almost Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s so hard to think of the holidays when it\u2019s hot and humid, and no Christmas decorations to speak of, save for a Christmas tree in the embassy atrium and our stockings hung on our door at home!<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed a video chat with Jackie today (we were dismayed that Jamie\u2019s phone connection dropped!). Jackie took me on a tour of Hillcrest where I got to say hello to Bruce &amp; Beth, John &amp; Nan, Oigan, Mary, and Judy! It was all quite a fun surprise! I even got to see our duplex across the street from Judy\u2019s house. Thank you, Jackie! John and I also had a fun video chat with David and Alyson last weekend &#8211; we wished we were there with them, sitting by the fireplace. Some places in Arkansas got snow!<\/p>\n<p>Our big news of the week is that we closed on a condo in Hot Springs! It\u2019s a short walk (or swim) to David and Alison\u2019s on Moonlight Bay in a quiet, no-frills complex. We look forward to getting back to Hot Springs at some point to see it in person!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6202\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6202\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/862EDFAB-A0EA-4EC5-8922-3A448F32F9D0-e1608497735350-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/862EDFAB-A0EA-4EC5-8922-3A448F32F9D0-e1608497735350-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/862EDFAB-A0EA-4EC5-8922-3A448F32F9D0-e1608497735350-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/862EDFAB-A0EA-4EC5-8922-3A448F32F9D0-e1608497735350.jpeg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from condo balcony<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s so hard to think of the holidays when it\u2019s hot and humid, and no Christmas decorations to speak of, save for a Christmas tree in the embassy atrium and our stockings hung on our door at home! I enjoyed a video chat with Jackie today (we were dismayed that Jamie\u2019s phone connection dropped!). Jackie [&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\/6201"}],"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=6201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6203,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}