{"id":8198,"date":"2026-06-07T21:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8198"},"modified":"2026-06-07T21:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:15:31","slug":"back-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8198","title":{"rendered":"Back home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spent Monday getting packed and the house ready to leave, taking a break for a gin and tonic with David and Alison. A wonderful storm came through Monday night and I sat on the porch listening to the rain and enjoying the cool wind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday was a travel day and I arrived back in Guyana in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, happy to see John (who was sweet enough to wait up for me). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent the rest of the week just getting settled back in and watching French Open tennis. I enjoyed watching Brazil\u2019s Fonseca beat Djokavic &#8211; we saw Fonseca win the Argentine Open last year. I finished \u201cThe Mad Wife\u201d by Meagan Church and \u201cWild Dark Shore\u201d by Charlotte McConaghy. John and I are still enjoying \u201cBetter Call Saul\u201d and are almost finished with the series. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent Monday getting packed and the house ready to leave, taking a break for a gin and tonic with David and Alison. A wonderful storm came through Monday night and I sat on the porch listening to the rain and enjoying the cool wind. Tuesday was a travel day and I arrived back in Guyana [&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\/8198"}],"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=8198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8200,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions\/8200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}