{"id":8268,"date":"2026-08-16T18:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8268"},"modified":"2026-08-16T18:47:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:47:37","slug":"my-happy-place-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8268","title":{"rendered":"My happy place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I flew back to Arkansas Monday night and have been enjoying being home despite the extremely hot temperatures here. I went out Wednesday night with Alison and Peewee, first to Splash for a glass of wine with some of their Hot Springs doyenne friends, then to a Mexican restaurant where Alison and Peewee made a new friend in the parking lot. Thursday we went to lunch together (with David) to celebrate Alison’s birthday at Fisherman’s Wharf. Happy birthday, Alison!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alison and Peewee with their new friend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Friday afternoon Pamela came for our Scrabble weekend. We enjoyed playing, relaxing, and catching up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve continued dialing in to my classes, although I missed Tuesday since I was traveling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John had a busy week after I left when the #2 at the State Department visited Guyana. John was in several meetings with him, Ambassador Theriot, and the Guyanese president.
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With the Guyanese president and Ambassador Theriot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The official delegation with State#2 (left of Ambassador)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Serious John!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I finished reading “Yesteryear” and enjoyed it although its “trad wife” theme is part entertaining and part scary as all get out! I tried to read “Theo of Golden,” but just wasn’t enjoying the writing or the story so I put it down after 50 pages. Pam and I started re-watching “Somebody Somewhere,” and I’m continuing with that today — it’s such a sweet story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


Parting shots:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John also met with two Fulbright scholars this week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nice text from Liberia <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I flew back to Arkansas Monday night and have been enjoying being home despite the extremely hot temperatures here. I went out Wednesday night with Alison and Peewee, first to Splash for a glass of wine with some of their Hot Springs doyenne friends, then to a Mexican restaurant where Alison and Peewee made a […]<\/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\/8268"}],"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=8268"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8300,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268\/revisions\/8300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}