{"id":6138,"date":"2020-09-27T05:32:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T09:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6138"},"modified":"2020-09-27T05:33:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T09:33:55","slug":"gradual-re-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6138","title":{"rendered":"Gradual re-entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6141\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6141\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AE5A07BD-D4C6-429D-84DA-6055D9A932D1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AE5A07BD-D4C6-429D-84DA-6055D9A932D1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AE5A07BD-D4C6-429D-84DA-6055D9A932D1.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laundry Day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I feel like we\u2019re very gradually moving into a slightly more normal time. COVID in Liberia has subsided for the time being, officers are returning to post from the long hiatus, and new officers are arriving. We went to a socially distanced welcome party last night for the new political chief and his wife (she\u2019s coming to work with us in the consular section!) &#8211; the party even included some foreign diplomats from the EU, so it actually felt like a party.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night we had a small get-together downstairs to welcome another new officer &#8211; we meant to play Catan but didn\u2019t stop talking long enough to get a game going.<\/p>\n<p>I had a good video chat last weekend with Ann, Pamela, and Jackie. John worked last weekend and this weekend at the office &#8211; it\u2019s year end, so his financial folks are quite busy. I also worked, but was able to do it from home, which was nice.<\/p>\n<p>We watched \u201cYoung Wallander\u201d this week, a Swedish crime show that we enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>On a sad note, Pamela\u2019s poodle Gus passed away this week unexpectedly after a short illness. It\u2019s so hard to lose our companions after they\u2019ve been our buddies for so long. Rest In Peace, Gus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like we\u2019re very gradually moving into a slightly more normal time. COVID in Liberia has subsided for the time being, officers are returning to post from the long hiatus, and new officers are arriving. We went to a socially distanced welcome party last night for the new political chief and his wife (she\u2019s [&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\/6138"}],"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=6138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6143,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions\/6143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}