{"id":7260,"date":"2023-12-17T13:41:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T18:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7260"},"modified":"2023-12-17T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T18:41:16","slug":"jacarandas-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7260","title":{"rendered":"Jacarandas in bloom"},"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\/2023\/12\/IMG_2959.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2959.jpeg 240w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2959-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The photo above doesn\u2019t do justice to the beautiful jacaranda trees blooming all over town &#8211; they\u2019re just gorgeous, and I love how the rain created a carpet of their blooms on this path across from the embassy. They\u2019re very fragrant, too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John was in Rio de Janeiro this past week for a work conference &#8211; he had fun and felt like it was productive. He saw lots of people he knew and said he learned a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I noticed a college friend, Cathy, was in Argentina when I saw her posting on Facebook this week and reached out to her &#8211; I was tickled that she took the time to stop by to say hello! We had a blast catching up &#8211; we literally hadn\u2019t seen each other since 1981! For all of its faults, sometimes Facebook comes in handy! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"307\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FullSizeRender.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FullSizeRender.jpeg 320w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FullSizeRender-300x288.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We had our holiday party at work on Friday afternoon and our Secret Santas were revealed &#8211; I was delighted that Lea had no idea I was hers. The party was a fun way to end the week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finished reading \u201cYellowface\u201d &#8211; I\u2019m still mulling it over. It was a fun read but the protagonist made me nervous the whole time! John and I watched a bit of \u201cSlow Horses\u201d and \u201cThe Crown\u201d when he got back from Rio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It really got hot this week (up to 90) so I guess summer is here\u2026although today it\u2019s been cooler and very windy and rainy. It caused a lot of damage around town and some folks had their electricity knocked out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photo above doesn\u2019t do justice to the beautiful jacaranda trees blooming all over town &#8211; they\u2019re just gorgeous, and I love how the rain created a carpet of their blooms on this path across from the embassy. They\u2019re very fragrant, too! John was in Rio de Janeiro this past week for a work conference [&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\/7260"}],"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=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7263,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions\/7263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}