{"id":6527,"date":"2021-12-05T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2021-12-05T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T08:08:09","slug":"december-already-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6527","title":{"rendered":"December already"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With temperatures in the 80s, it doesn\u2019t really feel like the holidays are approaching! There\u2019s not a lot of decorating in town, although the embassy put up a huge tree in our atrium and stockings are hung for the Marines (we have eight Marines, some as young as 18!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a fun chat with Ann, Pam, and Jackie last Sunday while John hosted a gaming day. Tuesday night, Matthew and I hosted two contacts for dinner at a local restaurant to talk about inter country adoptions (we do about one per week). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has been a lot of news coverage about the new COVID variant, Omicron, and I spent some amount of time on last Monday\u2019s holiday and late Friday afternoon making sure our messaging to U.S. citizens was updated and correct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John and I are re-visiting \u201cMiranda,\u201d which really makes us laugh. I finished reading a murder mystery, \u201cThe Guest List.\u201d I\u2019ve been listening to some Spanish podcasts to brush up a bit before my Spanish test later this month! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With temperatures in the 80s, it doesn\u2019t really feel like the holidays are approaching! There\u2019s not a lot of decorating in town, although the embassy put up a huge tree in our atrium and stockings are hung for the Marines (we have eight Marines, some as young as 18!). I had a fun chat with [&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\/6527"}],"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=6527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6528,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}