{"id":6867,"date":"2022-12-04T10:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T15:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2022-12-04T10:34:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T15:34:59","slug":"ho-ho-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6867","title":{"rendered":"Ho, ho, ho!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/55227099-41E3-424A-BDB2-38AE645C9820-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6869\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/55227099-41E3-424A-BDB2-38AE645C9820-edited.jpeg 240w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/55227099-41E3-424A-BDB2-38AE645C9820-edited-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>With Baby Magnolia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John was a fabulous Santa at yesterday\u2019s embassy holiday party at the Ambassador\u2019s residence &#8211; he sure looked the part and the families loved him!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This little girl was my favorite &#8211; she was just giddy when she saw Santa:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DCA422E5-1F87-4E7C-A5CE-0A053688BC78-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6873\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DCA422E5-1F87-4E7C-A5CE-0A053688BC78-edited.jpeg 240w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DCA422E5-1F87-4E7C-A5CE-0A053688BC78-edited-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/63BAA8AD-DDEC-4C9C-8767-F7B01D063B5D-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6871\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/63BAA8AD-DDEC-4C9C-8767-F7B01D063B5D-edited.jpeg 240w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/63BAA8AD-DDEC-4C9C-8767-F7B01D063B5D-edited-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Work was busy this week &#8211; we had a team of four computer folks in from DC to help us with some debugging and training, which we sorely needed. Argentina won two World Cup matches &#8211; one Wednesday and one yesterday &#8211; so the whole country is going nuts. Lea and I met for coffee yesterday afternoon in Palermo; the restaurant kicked us out at 4:00 when the game started and it looked like the whole city shut down &#8211; my drive home was super fast, as there were hardly any cars on the road!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/4E971563-B657-4616-9DE9-44D3BCFACFCA.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6874\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/4E971563-B657-4616-9DE9-44D3BCFACFCA.jpeg 240w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/4E971563-B657-4616-9DE9-44D3BCFACFCA-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>With Santa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John was a fabulous Santa at yesterday\u2019s embassy holiday party at the Ambassador\u2019s residence &#8211; he sure looked the part and the families loved him! This little girl was my favorite &#8211; she was just giddy when she saw Santa: Work was busy this week &#8211; we had a team of four computer folks in [&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\/6867"}],"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=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6875,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions\/6875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}