{"id":8039,"date":"2026-02-08T10:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2026-02-08T10:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:07:37","slug":"olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8039","title":{"rendered":"Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now that the Australian Open tennis is over, I\u2019ve moved on to the Olympics via the Westminster Dog Show. I miss the days when the games were televised on regular TV but I\u2019m cobbling together watching the portions I like (ice skating, skiing, luge, bobsled, etc). In the Olympic spirit, John and I watched a new documentary about the 1980s USA men\u2019s hockey team that beat the unbeatable Soviets in Lake Placid &#8211; it was a great movie! Miracle: The Boys of \u201880. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John is still the <em>charg\u00e9 d&#8217;affaires<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; he wears it well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5570.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5570.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5570-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5572.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5572.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5572-300x223.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My week wasn\u2019t nearly as exciting as John\u2019s. Aside from a couple of errands, I stayed in this week and we didn\u2019t have any social engagements &#8211; my kind of week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are continuing watching the American Revolution documentary, \u201cHijacked,\u201d and \u201cTehran\u201d and I continue to plod through a finance book about finances in retirement.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Australian Open tennis is over, I\u2019ve moved on to the Olympics via the Westminster Dog Show. I miss the days when the games were televised on regular TV but I\u2019m cobbling together watching the portions I like (ice skating, skiing, luge, bobsled, etc). In the Olympic spirit, John and I watched 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\/8039"}],"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=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8042,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions\/8042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}