{"id":1385,"date":"2011-05-15T00:56:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T06:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:19","slug":"lazy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"Lazy week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1390\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0016x.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1390\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1390\" title=\"DSC_0016x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0016x-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0016x-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0016x.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John and Syllie on the beach<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve really spent the week trying to get over jet lag &#8211; I&#8217;ve alternated between getting no sleep and sleeping so soundly that I don&#8217;t wake up until mid-morning!<\/p>\n<p>We were happy to have a day off on Tuesday to celebrate Israeli Independence Day. Our neighbors Diane and Bill had a great cookout on their balcony overlooking the ocean &#8211; I think everyone in Tel Aviv was down on the beach. Throughout the morning, fighter jets flew in formation and performed acrobatics overhead, and there were a million boats on the water. The party was great fun &#8211; I really enjoyed sitting in the sun and drinking a glass of wine as we visited with folks from other parts of the Embassy.<\/p>\n<p>We had another treat on Thursday when our friend Sylbeth popped into town for the night. She is posted in Japan and has been travelling around for her R&amp;R. We had a nice dinner at Whitehall, then sat in the sand at a beach bar for a nightcap. Syllie is a lot of fun, and it was wonderful to see an old friend from DC.<\/p>\n<p>Friday after work, I went with a few folks from the Consular section to a cafe overlooking the beach to have a little Friday happy hour, which was a great way to start the weekend.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1391\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0003x3.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1391\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1391\" title=\"DSC_0003x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0003x3-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0003x3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0003x3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli Independence Day<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really spent the week trying to get over jet lag &#8211; I&#8217;ve alternated between getting no sleep and sleeping so soundly that I don&#8217;t wake up until mid-morning! We were happy to have a day off on Tuesday to celebrate Israeli Independence Day. Our neighbors Diane and Bill had a great cookout on their [&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":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}