{"id":2432,"date":"2013-02-10T00:37:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T06:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:35:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:35:55","slug":"rain-rain-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=2432","title":{"rendered":"Rain, rain go away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2435\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/girls-with-paco.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2435\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2435\" title=\"girls with paco\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/girls-with-paco-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/girls-with-paco-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/girls-with-paco.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two of our pretty local staff with Paco&#39;s &quot;The Party&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wow &#8211; we had three straight days of rain \u00a0here starting last Sunday, complete with thunder and lightening &#8211; I heard we got 8&#8243;! It was pretty amazing. Then, on Wednesday, it was an absolutely gorgeous day like nothing had happened!<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday we went to a going-away party for one of the NIV officers in my section. Afterward we went to a small dinner party hosted by our friends Edward and Catherine. They cooked a delicious duck.<\/p>\n<p>Monday night Rick came over and we ordered in pizza &#8211; pepperoni, although it&#8217;s beef, not pork, of course!<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night we watched a real tear-jerker movie, &#8220;Quill, the Life of a Guide Dog.&#8221; It was such a sweet movie and John and I both just cried and cried!<\/p>\n<p>Friday afternoon, we had our NIV staff meeting at the American Club &#8211; \u00a0a nice way to end the week. From there I went to Carla&#8217;s office, then we all headed over to Frank and Lita&#8217;s to sit outside and enjoy a fire and unwind. Relaxing.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday I went in to print some visas so folks could make flights this weekend, and then went to for a mani-pedi and massage &#8211; so nice. Rick came over later and we went to eat sushi &#8211; we had a really enjoyable evening.<\/p>\n<p>Below are two photos that were taken at our house a couple of weeks ago when we hosted a farewell party for one of the local staff &#8211; we love the fire pit!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2434\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/firepit.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2434\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2434\" title=\"firepit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/firepit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/firepit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/firepit.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firepit<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow &#8211; we had three straight days of rain \u00a0here starting last Sunday, complete with thunder and lightening &#8211; I heard we got 8&#8243;! It was pretty amazing. Then, on Wednesday, it was an absolutely gorgeous day like nothing had happened! Last Sunday we went to a going-away party for one of the NIV officers [&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\/2432"}],"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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}