{"id":6307,"date":"2021-05-02T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T20:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2021-05-02T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T20:03:58","slug":"love-being-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6307","title":{"rendered":"Love being vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to vaccinations, I felt comfortable going out to dinner at Mamba Point with John and our fabulous friend and neighbor Ian, who we first met in Pakistan. Ian will be leaving soon, and we lamented not being able to spend more time together &#8211; thanks, COVID.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed a small gathering downstairs with our friend Michael, with guests of honor who are here to make a plan for a historical Liberian site. I met new, interesting, and fun neighbors and learned more about Liberian history. We also caught up with Michael on Monday night when he came up for a glass of wine after work &#8211; good times.<\/p>\n<p>I worked all weekend, in the office on Saturday and at home on Sunday. There\u2019s never enough time to get everything done! John and I did enjoy some down time this week, watching \u201cMare of Easttown\u201d with Kate Winslet, the lovely \u201cMy Octopus Teacher,\u201d and \u201cMank.\u201d I also had a great video chat with Pam, Ann, and Jackie last Sunday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6308\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6308\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BCF52722-9766-4C57-A57C-1650DF92486D-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BCF52722-9766-4C57-A57C-1650DF92486D-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BCF52722-9766-4C57-A57C-1650DF92486D-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BCF52722-9766-4C57-A57C-1650DF92486D-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With fabulous DOD colleagues, Matt and Jordan, at a DOD promotion ceremony this week.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to vaccinations, I felt comfortable going out to dinner at Mamba Point with John and our fabulous friend and neighbor Ian, who we first met in Pakistan. Ian will be leaving soon, and we lamented not being able to spend more time together &#8211; thanks, COVID. We enjoyed a small gathering downstairs with our [&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\/6307"}],"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=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6309,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}