{"id":6745,"date":"2022-08-21T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T13:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6745"},"modified":"2022-08-21T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T13:20:14","slug":"it-has-begun-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6745","title":{"rendered":"It has begun"},"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\/2022\/08\/53D9A61D-48E2-49D9-A0D5-6362160B9AB7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/53D9A61D-48E2-49D9-A0D5-6362160B9AB7.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/53D9A61D-48E2-49D9-A0D5-6362160B9AB7-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>Thousands of runners <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We saw thousands of runners going down Avenida Libertador alongside our apartment building this morning &#8211; it went on and on! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We received our air shipments on Friday afternoon, so we have a few more clothes, toiletries, and odds and ends. We never really inventory what we send in these shipments, so it\u2019s always a surprise by the time it gets to us. I spent some time yesterday putting things away and will continue to do so today. We always put the espresso machine in the air shipment, so I was happy to have John\u2019s great lattes again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lea came by yesterday for a visit after her yoga class &#8211; we enjoyed yakking for a couple of hours and solving all the world\u2019s problems :-).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Sunday, John and I walked a few blocks over to the Recoleta Cemetery. We didn\u2019t go inside, but wandered through the artesian stalls outside it and stopped for lunch at an outside cafe. Monday was a local holiday, and our colleague Rachel had us and Lea over for brunch. Lea\u2019s and Rachel\u2019s kids played while we had mimosas and waffles &#8211; not a bad way to spend a morning! Friday night the DCM had us over for dinner with two Canadian diplomats who are her neighbors &#8211; it was an enjoyable casual dinner and nice to get to know some new folks. We were happy to be invited. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John and I went to a couple of restaurants this week that we liked, including a Japanese place last night. Our housekeeper Pilar started with us mid-week and she cooked good healthy meals for us two nights. For now she\u2019s living with us and going home for the weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read a good book this week, \u201cDisrupted,\u201d by Dan Lyons about a middle-aged man going to work for a start-up in Silicon Valley &#8211; pretty funny and alarming at the same time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw thousands of runners going down Avenida Libertador alongside our apartment building this morning &#8211; it went on and on! We received our air shipments on Friday afternoon, so we have a few more clothes, toiletries, and odds and ends. We never really inventory what we send in these shipments, so it\u2019s always a [&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\/6745"}],"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=6745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6747,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745\/revisions\/6747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}