{"id":6410,"date":"2021-08-15T08:53:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T12:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2021-08-15T08:53:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T12:53:39","slug":"farmers-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6410","title":{"rendered":"Farmer\u2019s Market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/F5870EE5-2BDB-4264-A3EE-C91D224CEA11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/F5870EE5-2BDB-4264-A3EE-C91D224CEA11.jpeg 240w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/F5870EE5-2BDB-4264-A3EE-C91D224CEA11-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>Pipas!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I stopped by the embassy farmer\u2019s market Friday afternoon and picked up some lettuce and fresh eggs. I also had this guy chop me a coconut to drink the water inside &#8211; yum! It reminded me of the <em>pipas<\/em> in Costa Rica, and also drinking a cold one on a very hot day in Cambodia. The lettuce was really good &#8211; almost like a cross between Bibb and Romaine. John grilled steaks last night from the NGO and I made a little salad. I tried to roast frozen broccoli but it was kind of a bust &#8211; but, I also threw in some frozen green beans and they were good. I took our social sponsee Jim to the grocery store yesterday and was delighted to see purple onions and decent cauliflower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We spent a couple of hours on the Ambassador\u2019s veranda after work on Friday for a farewell to one of John\u2019s employees. It was mostly local staff &#8211; John and the Ambassador gave remarks (which I missed!). We laughed because it was apparent that some of the local staff thought John was the ambassador! We pulled up chairs and visited with some folks and enjoyed a beer and the ocean breeze. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We finished \u201cHit and Run\u201d and \u201cSchmigadoon\u201d this week &#8211; and are still enjoying \u201cTed Lasso\u201d!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by the embassy farmer\u2019s market Friday afternoon and picked up some lettuce and fresh eggs. I also had this guy chop me a coconut to drink the water inside &#8211; yum! It reminded me of the pipas in Costa Rica, and also drinking a cold one on a very hot day in Cambodia. [&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\/6410"}],"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=6410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6412,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions\/6412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}