{"id":7234,"date":"2023-11-12T08:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2023-11-12T08:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:27:44","slug":"spring-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7234","title":{"rendered":"Spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2914-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2914-2.jpeg 320w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2914-2-300x252.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Marine Ball last week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring is really here now &#8211; the jacarandas are starting to bloom and the weather has been crazy. It stormed all afternoon and evening Friday (postponing a much-anticipated Taylor Swift concert) &#8211; I loved the rain because we were snugly tucked inside for the Veterans\u2019 Day holiday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Sunday I went to our new, small book club at the very fancy brunch at the Alvear Hotel &#8211; a fun venue to discuss \u201cTomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.\u201d While the book wasn\u2019t really my cup of tea, it was a fun outing with friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday was busy running errands and it was nice to have Thai food delivered in the evening. We\u2019ve been watching \u201cDopesick\u201d with Michael Keaton and we are really riveted by it (what a horrible, horrible story of greed). I enjoyed reading \u201cPhil,\u201d an unauthorized biography of the golfing great, this week, and just started a new book, \u201cSurrounded by Idiots\u201d &#8211; it\u2019s not as pessimistic as it sounds!<\/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\/2023\/11\/IMG_2913.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7236\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2913.jpeg 240w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2913-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>Flavia, sound asleep<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is really here now &#8211; the jacarandas are starting to bloom and the weather has been crazy. It stormed all afternoon and evening Friday (postponing a much-anticipated Taylor Swift concert) &#8211; I loved the rain because we were snugly tucked inside for the Veterans\u2019 Day holiday. Last Sunday I went to our new, small [&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\/7234"}],"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=7234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7241,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions\/7241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}