{"id":6658,"date":"2022-06-05T23:14:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T03:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6658"},"modified":"2022-06-05T23:14:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T03:14:20","slug":"all-around-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6658","title":{"rendered":"All around town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"238\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/11E5CF9C-6B43-40B8-81AA-A671F48DEFE7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6659\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/11E5CF9C-6B43-40B8-81AA-A671F48DEFE7.jpeg 238w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/11E5CF9C-6B43-40B8-81AA-A671F48DEFE7-223x300.jpeg 223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><figcaption>Flavie in her new bed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Flavie decided she likes her new bed after all! She looks so cute in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was another fun week! We had dinner with David and Alison on their lovely porch overlooking the lake Monday night. I tagged along with Alison and Peewee for their Wednesday night outing, and we ended up having dinner at Rocky\u2019s &#8211; a Hot Springs institution, but somewhere I had never been before. It was great, and now I want to go back to try their pizza. John and I had fried catfish at the Red Oak Filling Station (new to us) one day for lunch. Thursday night we had a nice dinner out at The Oak Room at Oaklawn with Julie and Scott &#8211; it was fun to catch up with them. Friday night my good friend Leslie came for dinner. We talked and talked till we were blue in the face, and continued the next morning over coffee (our first overnight guest). We wrapped up the week with a fantastic brunch at Peewee\u2019s in honor of David\u2019s birthday tomorrow &#8211; with special guest Chuck! Peewee is a wonderful cook and hostess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read an historical fiction book about Hedy Lamar, \u201cThe Only Woman in the Room\u201d &#8211; very enjoyable. I\u2019d always wanted to read about her and her scientific inventions. Next I read \u201cThe Dung Beetles of Liberia,\u201d a book I\u2019ve been trying to find for a while. It was a fun read about a bush pilot in Liberia in the 1960s (based on true events). After that I read \u201cAmerican Baby,\u201d a non-fiction book about adoptions in the U.S. post WWII and how many women were coerced into giving up their babies; this book followed the story of one woman in particular and it was heartbreaking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re caught up on all of our regular shows. In addition, we watched \u201cCharlie Wilson\u2019s War\u201d (a Mike Nichols film) and \u201cThe Darkest Hour\u201d about Churchill. We also binged on season two of \u201cBorgen,\u201d a Danish political drama that we really like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flavie decided she likes her new bed after all! She looks so cute in it. This was another fun week! We had dinner with David and Alison on their lovely porch overlooking the lake Monday night. I tagged along with Alison and Peewee for their Wednesday night outing, and we ended up having dinner at [&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\/6658"}],"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=6658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6660,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions\/6660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}