{"id":7130,"date":"2023-07-02T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T18:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7130"},"modified":"2023-07-02T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T18:19:41","slug":"celebrating-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7130","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"291\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PHOTO-2023-06-30-07-34-35.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7131\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PHOTO-2023-06-30-07-34-35.jpeg 291w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PHOTO-2023-06-30-07-34-35-273x300.jpeg 273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><figcaption>At Bosch Palace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We celebrated Independence Day at a huge representational event at the Ambassador\u2019s Residence Thursday evening after work. It was a huge blow-out party &#8211; much bigger and fancier than any other we\u2019ve attended. The number of guests goes up every time I hear it, from 1200 to 1700. While fun, for us it was a work event, on top of an already full day &#8211; John and I were there not so much to have fun but to engage with foreign interlocutors. The party is funded by big corporate donors who provide food and drink, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday John and I went to a smaller embassy celebration for the 4th at the Ambassador\u2019s quincho (the outside grill area). We had a good time eating party leftovers and potluck fare, visiting in a casual setting with the coworkers who opted to come, and listening to a band made up of local staff &#8211; much more relaxing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finished reading \u201cUnbroken\u201d &#8211; wow, just wow! I\u2019m now reading \u201cOn our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to be Good.\u201d John and I have started watching the new and final season of Jack Ryan, plus the Mexican \u201cWho Killed Sara.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent this morning at the office working to get our computer systems back up after a power outage, then Lea came for an early afternoon coffee. Here we are at the big party:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"274\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PHOTO-2023-06-30-07-34-11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7132\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PHOTO-2023-06-30-07-34-11.jpeg 274w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PHOTO-2023-06-30-07-34-11-257x300.jpeg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrated Independence Day at a huge representational event at the Ambassador\u2019s Residence Thursday evening after work. It was a huge blow-out party &#8211; much bigger and fancier than any other we\u2019ve attended. The number of guests goes up every time I hear it, from 1200 to 1700. While fun, for us it was a [&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\/7130"}],"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=7130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7133,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130\/revisions\/7133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}