{"id":6809,"date":"2022-10-16T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6809"},"modified":"2022-10-16T07:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T11:00:41","slug":"it-has-begun-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6809","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\/10\/9C4180D5-D3BE-4693-B041-7B089385C1FB.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9C4180D5-D3BE-4693-B041-7B089385C1FB.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9C4180D5-D3BE-4693-B041-7B089385C1FB-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>Boxes and boxes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our household goods arrived Friday! We\u2019re spending the weekend (and then some) putting things away and making the apartment feel like home. Despite LOTS of purging before leaving Liberia, it still feels like a lot of \u201cthings\u201d! While the apartment is large, there\u2019s not much storage, so we\u2019ll have to get creative! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Monday was a holiday and John arranged a guide to take us urban birding. Not far from the house is an EcoReserve &#8211; we strolled along the sidewalk and saw lots of birds, then went inside the park for a while. We spotted over 50 kinds of birds &#8211; lovely. My favorite was a huge stork flying overhead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6C8AD481-D431-4A72-AA20-34ACB367E17D.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6C8AD481-D431-4A72-AA20-34ACB367E17D.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6C8AD481-D431-4A72-AA20-34ACB367E17D-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>Urban birding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a good video chat with James and MaryBeth on Saturday. John and I watched (and loved) \u201cBad Sisters\u201d (thanks, Pamela, for the recommendation!). We also thoroughly enjoyed \u201cElvis\u201d! We\u2019ve started season two of \u201cLondon Kills,\u201d a good crime drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a shot from San Telmo last weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/81844BBC-06E4-4ED4-8019-45E5E2BCC2C1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/81844BBC-06E4-4ED4-8019-45E5E2BCC2C1.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/81844BBC-06E4-4ED4-8019-45E5E2BCC2C1-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our household goods arrived Friday! We\u2019re spending the weekend (and then some) putting things away and making the apartment feel like home. Despite LOTS of purging before leaving Liberia, it still feels like a lot of \u201cthings\u201d! While the apartment is large, there\u2019s not much storage, so we\u2019ll have to get creative! Last Monday was [&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\/6809"}],"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=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6813,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions\/6813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}