{"id":344,"date":"2009-02-17T12:06:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T18:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:37:06","slug":"on-the-road-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"On the road again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I flew into Little Rock on Saturday afternoon for Mom&#8217;s 83rd birthday weekend. On the way into Hot Springs, I stopped at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alisonparsons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alison&#8217;s gallery<\/a> and bought two really pretty pieces of jewelry made by her sister. Alison is doing some fun work these days, too &#8211; as always.<\/p>\n<p>The cousins came out on Sunday afternoon, with a special guest appearance by my good friend Leslie. We had a great time just sitting around and yakking and eating cake.<\/p>\n<p>Our big excitement this week was the bid list &#8211; the list of job opportunities available to John and me in 2010 when we leave Juarez. There are lots of interesting spots on the list &#8211; it&#8217;ll be a huge task to sort through everything and see what we want to bid on. China, Brazil, India, Africa, the Middle East, Europe &#8211; hard to tell where we&#8217;ll end up!<\/p>\n<p>The week in Juarez was busy. We went to our neighbor&#8217;s house Wednesday night to watch the U.S. soccer team beat Mexico. Thursday we went to El Paso to meet some of the Mexican diplomats from the El Paso Consulate &#8211; they&#8217;re a lot of fun. We also took a TDY&#8217;er out to dinner on Tuesday at Corralito&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been nice to be back in Hot Springs and be able to take my morning walks outside instead of on the treadmill &#8211; I&#8217;ve seen deer, woodpeckers and bunnies &#8211; fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I flew into Little Rock on Saturday afternoon for Mom&#8217;s 83rd birthday weekend. On the way into Hot Springs, I stopped at Alison&#8217;s gallery and bought two really pretty pieces of jewelry made by her sister. Alison is doing some fun work these days, too &#8211; as always. The cousins came out on Sunday afternoon, [&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\/344"}],"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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}