{"id":6533,"date":"2021-12-19T08:29:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2021-12-19T08:29:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T13:29:51","slug":"countdown-to-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6533","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1C59545A-3983-44CC-987B-E70B8FA54D9B.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1C59545A-3983-44CC-987B-E70B8FA54D9B.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1C59545A-3983-44CC-987B-E70B8FA54D9B-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>Christmas decorations in the neighborhood <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The big news of the week was making a decent score on my Spanish test &#8211; it will help finalize the paperwork on my next assignment in Buenos Aires. I was very nervous about it since I haven\u2019t spoken Spanish much since 2017 &#8211; and my tester had an accent that I am not very good with (from Spain) &#8211; but all\u2019s well that ends well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also got a few pieces of good news regarding various projects at work, so I\u2019ll mark this week up as a \u201cwin\u201d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John donned a Santa suit yesterday morning for photos with the kids at post &#8211; he had a lot of fun but was ready to get out of the Santa suit after a couple of hours in the outdoor heat! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news of the week was making a decent score on my Spanish test &#8211; it will help finalize the paperwork on my next assignment in Buenos Aires. I was very nervous about it since I haven\u2019t spoken Spanish much since 2017 &#8211; and my tester had an accent that I am not very [&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\/6533"}],"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=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6535,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions\/6535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}