{"id":6248,"date":"2021-02-21T06:08:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T11:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2021-02-21T06:08:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T11:08:54","slug":"its-hot-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6248","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hot here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Deep Freeze across the southern U.S. is unfathomable here in hot West Africa! I hope all our family and friends are weathering it without too much discomfort or damage. I\u2019ve enjoyed the snowmageddon photos, especially around Lake Hamilton &#8211; how beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve talked to a few family and friends over the last week &#8211; my biweekly video chat with Jackie and Pam (we missed Ann this week), a good visit with David and Alison in front of their fireplace in Hot Springs, and a call with my friend Pam in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>We had the pleasure of celebrating our friend Rick\u2019s birthday on Monday night in a socially distanced dinner on the DCM\u2019s balcony.<\/p>\n<p>Monday was a holiday, so I was able to get in some good work without interruptions &#8211; yesterday, too. The amount of work continues to be overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>My father-in-law Pete celebrated his 85th birthday this week &#8211; happy birthday! We enjoyed our video chat with him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deep Freeze across the southern U.S. is unfathomable here in hot West Africa! I hope all our family and friends are weathering it without too much discomfort or damage. I\u2019ve enjoyed the snowmageddon photos, especially around Lake Hamilton &#8211; how beautiful. I\u2019ve talked to a few family and friends over the last week &#8211; [&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\/6248"}],"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=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6249,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}