{"id":6523,"date":"2021-11-28T03:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T08:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6523"},"modified":"2021-11-28T03:01:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T08:01:58","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6523","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We celebrated Thanksgiving at an Embassy potluck held outside by the pool, then again last night at Matthew\u2019s house. Both events were fun and gave us the chance to visit with folks. I chatted a long time with a visiting CDC doctor, in part about the new COVID variant identified last week by scientists in South Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We welcomed a new local staff member to the team this week &#8211; I\u2019m grateful to finally have a fraud assistant on board (one more to go!). Training up new people takes so much time and effort, but it will pay off in the long run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John and I watched a slow but very sweet moving about refugees this week, \u201cLimbo.\u201d And we\u2019re watching our Finnish crime show (and enjoying the beautiful snowy scenery in Finland). <\/p>\n\n\n\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\/11\/B4038681-019C-4C3C-96F8-CFEB83B1E6C1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/B4038681-019C-4C3C-96F8-CFEB83B1E6C1.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/B4038681-019C-4C3C-96F8-CFEB83B1E6C1-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>One very happy and relaxed cat!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrated Thanksgiving at an Embassy potluck held outside by the pool, then again last night at Matthew\u2019s house. Both events were fun and gave us the chance to visit with folks. I chatted a long time with a visiting CDC doctor, in part about the new COVID variant identified last week by scientists in [&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\/6523"}],"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=6523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6525,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}