{"id":6566,"date":"2022-02-13T04:56:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T09:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6566"},"modified":"2022-02-13T04:56:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T09:56:40","slug":"not-an-ordinary-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6566","title":{"rendered":"Not an ordinary week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/E05A9E67-3F30-4DF3-9973-02CBCE77AEBA.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6567\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/E05A9E67-3F30-4DF3-9973-02CBCE77AEBA.jpeg 320w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/E05A9E67-3F30-4DF3-9973-02CBCE77AEBA-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Broccoli!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For starters, the grocery store had broccoli this week &#8211; it\u2019s only about the third time I\u2019ve seen it here. It wasn\u2019t as nice as what you would get at the store at home, but roasted up, it was still pretty tasty! Quite exciting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The week was filled with more emergencies with American citizens &#8211; it\u2019s like a full moon or something. We\u2019re dealing with some very tough cases. Two of us from the consular section went to a small private burial of a U.S. citizen this week where I said some words and read a poem\/prayer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday was a local holiday. I worked from home most of the day, just trying to get caught up a bit. We\u2019re heading into the season where we have lots of annual reports due and employee evaluations &#8211; busy time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Sunday I had a good video chat with Ann, Pamela, and Jackie, and another with David. Mary and I talked yesterday when she called to tell me a mutual friend Donna  had died &#8211; very sad. I hadn\u2019t seen her in years, but liked her and her husband very much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today would have been Mom\u2019s 97th birthday. Miss you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-210x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6568\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-210x300.jpeg 210w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-717x1024.jpeg 717w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-768x1097.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1075x1536.jpeg 1075w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1434x2048.jpeg 1434w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image.jpeg 1792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For starters, the grocery store had broccoli this week &#8211; it\u2019s only about the third time I\u2019ve seen it here. It wasn\u2019t as nice as what you would get at the store at home, but roasted up, it was still pretty tasty! Quite exciting! The week was filled with more emergencies with American citizens &#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\/6566"}],"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=6566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6570,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions\/6570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}