{"id":918,"date":"2010-07-04T14:13:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T20:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:43","slug":"taking-it-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"Taking it easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week wasn’t so hectic, which was nice, and, mid-week, the weather took a break from being really hot and humid.<\/p>\n

We went out for a short bike ride last Sunday morning, although we went a little too late and it was already sweltering outside, so we cut it short after about six miles.<\/p>\n

Friday night, we had a going-away dinner with Michael, Suzanne, and their two kids at a kabob restaurant – we worked with them in Juarez and Michael was one of my favorite officers there.<\/p>\n

Saturday night, we met up with our A-100 friend Carolyn at Harry’s, who is just back from Kathmandu. We had dinner with her and two of her friends from New York who were really fun and interesting.<\/p>\n

The rest of the week was pretty low-key. We watched an interesting documentary in Area Studies called The Oath<\/a> on Tuesday; the director was there for Q&A afterward. That night I piddled around with my new camera, learning how to use it, while John went to a magic lecture in Maryland.<\/p>\n

On Saturday afternoon, I test drove a Cooper Mini, which was a lot of fun. I need to find a new, small car to take to Tel Aviv. Suggestions?<\/p>\n

Speaking of Tel Aviv, John and I got our housing assignment and we are very happy. We’re across the street from the beach and just a few blocks from the Embassy. The apartment is tiny, but the location is fantastic! Click here for a photo of the building<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This week, John and I started using Hebrew for most of our discussions at home, which makes it interesting – and also makes for rather short conversations!<\/p>\n

With Michael, Suzanne and family<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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This week wasn’t so hectic, which was nice, and, mid-week, the weather took a break from being really hot and humid. We went out for a short bike ride last Sunday morning, although we went a little too late and it was already sweltering outside, so we cut it short after about six miles. Friday […]<\/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\/918"}],"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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}