{"id":8343,"date":"2026-10-11T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8343"},"modified":"2026-10-11T21:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:03:13","slug":"administrivia-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8343","title":{"rendered":"Administrivia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was the week for \u201dadministrivia,\u201d like dealing with insurance, getting my absentee ballot ready to mail, etc. I was on my own running the house this week, so grocery shopping and cooking were also on the list of to-dos. Nothing too exciting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finished reading \u201cSense and Sensibility\u201d and \u201cDrive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead,\u201d and started \u201cMonster of a Land,\u201d by Lauren Hough (thanks for the recommendation, Joan!). John and I watched a good Israeli series, \u201cUnconditional\u201d and we are thoroughly enjoying the Dutch series, \u201cThe Perfect Lie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week marked a year of calling my three congressional representatives in Washington every business day. I\u2019m not sure they pay much attention to what I tell them, but it\u2019s good to stay in touch with them! Try it! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the week for \u201dadministrivia,\u201d like dealing with insurance, getting my absentee ballot ready to mail, etc. I was on my own running the house this week, so grocery shopping and cooking were also on the list of to-dos. Nothing too exciting! I finished reading \u201cSense and Sensibility\u201d and \u201cDrive your Plow over the [&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\/8343"}],"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=8343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8344,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343\/revisions\/8344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}