{"id":7418,"date":"2024-05-19T07:07:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T11:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7418"},"modified":"2024-05-19T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T11:07:06","slug":"low-key-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7418","title":{"rendered":"Low key week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_3551.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_3551.jpeg 320w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_3551-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Asador (griller) Mario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We topped off a very low key week by driving up to the suburbs for a parilla at our friends\u2019 Rachel and Ray\u2019s house last night. The upside of living in the \u2018burbs is having a backyard, small pool, and a big grill &#8211; nice! We had a fun evening visiting with our hosts and also Lea and Jose, Josie, and Ray\u2019s mom Nita. The food was delish, and as you can see, there was a lot of it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At work, we are starting the summer transition season and welcomed one of the two new deputies in my section. We had visitors from the Educational and Cultural Exchange branch of the State Department in this week, and I learned a lot about the au pair and summer work\/travel programs &#8211; very interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Sunday I chatted with Ann and Pam, then with Nomi a little later &#8211; so good to catch up! John and I have enjoyed the second seasons of \u201cHacks\u201d and also started I think the third season of \u201cCobra,\u201d a British political show (I\u2019m enjoying seeing Jane \u201cLittle Voice\u201d Horrocks in it). And we watched a very early Albert Brooks\u2019 movie, \u201cReal Life,\u201d which was oddly prescient with its take on reality TV. I finished my book club book, \u201cSomeone Else\u2019s Shoes\u201d and started \u201cThe Two Headed Whale\u201d this morning (thanks for the rec, Joan!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We saw the Monument of the Spanish lit up in Argentine blue last night on our drive home:<\/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\/2024\/05\/IMG_3554.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_3554.jpeg 240w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_3554-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We topped off a very low key week by driving up to the suburbs for a parilla at our friends\u2019 Rachel and Ray\u2019s house last night. The upside of living in the \u2018burbs is having a backyard, small pool, and a big grill &#8211; nice! We had a fun evening visiting with our hosts and [&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\/7418"}],"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=7418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7421,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions\/7421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}