{"id":4477,"date":"2016-08-28T09:49:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T14:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=4477"},"modified":"2016-08-28T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T14:51:18","slug":"taking-it-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=4477","title":{"rendered":"Taking it slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">I&#8217;m pretty much recovered from my cold, but still moving slowly.  Every day is a little better! It&#8217;s especially aggravating to see my Fitbit steps go down to nothing &#8211; argh!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Yesterday John and I went to the office to work &#8211; he worked all day because we&#8217;re moving into his busy season for procurement as our fiscal year comes to a close next month. I just went in for a couple of hours in the morning to write a letter of recommendation for a co-worker and get some other administrative stuff done.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Afterward, I drove out to Tonala and poked around some of the stores there. It&#8217;s historically a artisan town &#8211; yesterday I went to several of their stores for blown glass. I had a good time, and brought home a <em>torta ahogada<\/em> to eat &#8211; a &#8220;drowned sandwich&#8221; that Guadalajara is famous for. It&#8217;s basically a mini-baguette stuff with pork, then &#8220;drowned&#8221; in a spicy tomato sauce. Messy to eat, but good!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">I had a discussion this week with my mothership (Consular Affairs) about my onward assignment &#8211; bidding opens next month. John and I have made the decision to come back to DC for a tour &#8211; it will be nice to be closer to home for a while. I&#8217;ve got my eye on some interesting jobs, so wish me luck! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty much recovered from my cold, but still moving slowly. Every day is a little better! It&#8217;s especially aggravating to see my Fitbit steps go down to nothing &#8211; argh! Yesterday John and I went to the office to work &#8211; he worked all day because we&#8217;re moving into his busy season for procurement [&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\/4477"}],"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=4477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4479,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions\/4479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}