{"id":6608,"date":"2022-04-03T04:32:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6608"},"modified":"2022-04-03T04:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T08:32:14","slug":"rainy-season-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6608","title":{"rendered":"Rainy season already?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/42382C8D-BFE0-4F9F-987F-22FA10C36FFB.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6609\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/42382C8D-BFE0-4F9F-987F-22FA10C36FFB.jpeg 320w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/42382C8D-BFE0-4F9F-987F-22FA10C36FFB-300x223.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Stormy weather!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve had a few storms come through lately &#8211; it seems early for the rainy season, but maybe not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a nice dinner out at Mamba Point with a German diplomat, Peter, and his wife Lia who was visiting from DC. They were lots of fun &#8211; and we discovered they had gone to Sabi Sabi for a safari many years ago &#8211; small world! Later in the week we went back to the hotel for dinner with Mike and Carolyn to talk about their bidding &#8211; another nice evening. Friday night, I went with John to his book club (despite not having read the book). I had fun listening to them discuss \u201cLincoln in the Bardo\u201d and enjoyed the hospitality of Sonya and Jeff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re still organizing for pack-out, but made time last night to watch Kenneth Branagh\u2019s \u201cMurder on the NIle\u201d &#8211; it was fun and had some actors we like. I finished reading \u201cNives,\u201d a fun work of fiction by Sasha Naspini &#8211; I kept thinking of what a good stage play it would make, or even just a reading. It\u2019s primarily a telephone conversation between two people but with lots of twists and turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve had a few storms come through lately &#8211; it seems early for the rainy season, but maybe not! We had a nice dinner out at Mamba Point with a German diplomat, Peter, and his wife Lia who was visiting from DC. They were lots of fun &#8211; and we discovered they had gone to [&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\/6608"}],"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=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6610,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions\/6610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}