{"id":7646,"date":"2025-01-19T12:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T17:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7646"},"modified":"2025-01-19T12:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T17:16:53","slug":"full-week-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7646","title":{"rendered":"Full week at work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/8f5de9ac-e64d-4d4e-965e-09e69387cb6a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7647\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/8f5de9ac-e64d-4d4e-965e-09e69387cb6a.jpeg 320w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/8f5de9ac-e64d-4d4e-965e-09e69387cb6a-300x290.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Friday night dinner at Cabanas las Lilas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John and I celebrated the end of the work week &#8211; the first full work week since before Christmas &#8211; by going out to dinner at a nice steak house. The embassy was busy all week bidding our Ambassador farewell as his tour came to a close. I was also busy in the consular section covering several different emergencies involving U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John and I got caught up with \u201cMatlock\u201d and continued with episodes of \u201cThe Agency.\u201d We also started \u201c100 Years of Solitude\u201d last night. I just watched \u201cWoman of the Hour\u201d with Anna Kendrick on Netflix while John was outside roasting coffee on the balcony. I finished reading \u201cAll Fours\u201d and also \u201cBellevue\u201d by Robin Cook (who I met on our cruise last year). I just started a book about having a fulfilling retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not much else to report this week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John and I celebrated the end of the work week &#8211; the first full work week since before Christmas &#8211; by going out to dinner at a nice steak house. The embassy was busy all week bidding our Ambassador farewell as his tour came to a close. I was also busy in the consular section [&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\/7646"}],"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=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7649,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions\/7649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}