{"id":1570,"date":"2011-10-16T01:10:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T07:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:17","slug":"love-the-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"Love the holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1572\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/JC-and-Natalia.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1572\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1572\" title=\"Sukkot Open House at the U.S. Ambassador Residence in Herzliya. October 14, 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/JC-and-Natalia-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/JC-and-Natalia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/JC-and-Natalia.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John and Natalia, with balloon monkey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week was filled with more holidays &#8211; Monday we were off work for Columbus Day, and Thursday we were off for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Friday was also a quiet day at work because of a bike race that made getting to work difficult, so many stayed home and our appointments with the public were re-scheduled. Don&#8217;t know what we are going to do when we have to work a five-day work week again!<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, we took Flavie to the vet. She is losing hair &#8211; it&#8217;s very odd. I&#8217;ll take her back in three weeks for another check up and for skin scrapings. Her blood work was fine, which is good.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, our holiday, John and I went to the dentist for a check-up (all good). In the afternoon, we walked down to Jaffo just to look around. We stopped at the famous Dr. Shakshuka for a snack and cold drink. I think I&#8217;ve talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shakshouka\" target=\"_blank\">shakshuka <\/a>before &#8211; it&#8217;s eggs poached in a spicy tomato sauce &#8211; really good. It was too hot for shakshuka, though.<\/p>\n<p>Friday afternoon, John and I volunteered to work at the Ambassador&#8217;s Sukkot open house at the residence. John was a big hit at the Kiddie Korner, where he made balloon animals! He really enjoyed himself.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night, John took me to an excellent restaurant in Neve Tzedek, A Place for Meat. We had great steaks and delicious side dishes. Yummy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was filled with more holidays &#8211; Monday we were off work for Columbus Day, and Thursday we were off for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Friday was also a quiet day at work because of a bike race that made getting to work difficult, so many stayed home and our appointments with 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":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570"}],"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=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3564,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/3564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}