{"id":6973,"date":"2023-03-12T07:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T11:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6973"},"modified":"2023-03-12T07:27:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T11:27:52","slug":"enough-with-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6973","title":{"rendered":"Enough with the heat!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2B1D45BA-AA51-4CD4-8D37-7DB6EF3739D3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6974\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2B1D45BA-AA51-4CD4-8D37-7DB6EF3739D3.jpeg 320w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2B1D45BA-AA51-4CD4-8D37-7DB6EF3739D3-300x201.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Sunrise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The heat wave here continues! No bike riding for us this weekend as temps have hit the high 90s. I did get in a ride early last Sunday, then met Lea for lunch at a coffee shop in the early afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work seemed busier than usual this week &#8211; it\u2019s the time of year when lots of reports, employee evaluations, and award nominations are due on top of our regular duties. The consular section hosted a consular corps reception at Bosch Palace Friday afternoon that was a nice break; our consular colleagues from other missions are fun and interesting, and it was nice to get to know them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John and I watch the fun (but violent at times) Bollywood movie, \u201cRRR\u201d &#8211; really fun (one of the songs is nominated for an Oscar). We\u2019re continuing to watch the excellent \u201cShrinking\u201d and \u201cThe Liaison,\u201d plus we started the Korean series, \u201cLittle Women\u201d last night. I finished reading \u201cThe Secrets of Happiness\u201d (meh) and have started Joan Didion\u2019s collection of essays, \u201cSlouching toward Bethlehem.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat wave here continues! No bike riding for us this weekend as temps have hit the high 90s. I did get in a ride early last Sunday, then met Lea for lunch at a coffee shop in the early afternoon. Work seemed busier than usual this week &#8211; it\u2019s the time of year when [&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\/6973"}],"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=6973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6975,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions\/6975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}