{"id":6472,"date":"2021-10-17T06:01:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T10:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6472"},"modified":"2021-10-17T06:02:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T10:02:55","slug":"the-great-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6472","title":{"rendered":"The Great Flood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/D69ACE02-924A-4F45-8A27-C159A228CB4B.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/D69ACE02-924A-4F45-8A27-C159A228CB4B.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/D69ACE02-924A-4F45-8A27-C159A228CB4B-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Lovely sunsets this week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, our apartment flooded yesterday when a hose on the hot water heater came loose. I was at the salon, so poor John had to deal with it on his own. Neighbors ran up to help and the embassy sent over a cleaning crew &#8211; about half the apartment was completely covered in water, including our rugs. Everything is topsy-turvy as pretty much all furniture had to be moved around to get the water (and rugs) out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Monday was a holiday and we hosted a game day. Later in the week, we had a mass casualty drill at work. Thursday we had a small dinner at a restaurant near work to bid Luke farewell, along with some others from John\u2019s section. I had a great video chat with my former boss who\u2019s now in Pakistan. Most of the week, John and I obsessed over bidding. We are still completely up in the air and keeping fingers crossed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finished a book by Alan Alda on communication &#8211; thanks to Ann for flagging his \u201cClear and Vivid\u201d podcast, as well. I started a book called \u201cBeing Wrong\u201d but didn\u2019t get all the way through it before the library loan ended, so I\u2019ve put it on hold again. We finished a good crime series called \u201cThe Chestnut Man.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/599B9BC8-B35E-4A43-9F67-4EB839983900-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/599B9BC8-B35E-4A43-9F67-4EB839983900-edited.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/599B9BC8-B35E-4A43-9F67-4EB839983900-edited-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, our apartment flooded yesterday when a hose on the hot water heater came loose. I was at the salon, so poor John had to deal with it on his own. Neighbors ran up to help and the embassy sent over a cleaning crew &#8211; about half the apartment was completely covered in water, including [&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\/6472"}],"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=6472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6481,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions\/6481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}