{"id":8252,"date":"2026-07-19T14:05:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8252"},"modified":"2026-07-19T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:07:07","slug":"goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8252","title":{"rendered":"Goal!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John and I have enjoyed watching some of the World Cup soccer matches this week. He went to the Argentine Embassy on Wednesday to watch the game between Argentina and England (I watched at home), then yesterday we watched the third place playoff game between France and England. This afternoon we are headed to the EU ambassador\u2019s house to watch the finals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday evening we went to the French Embassy for their celebration of Bastille Day. A nice event even though they lost in the semi-finals earlier in the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday John and I went to the movie theatre (just a stone\u2019s throw from our house) to watch \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d and we really enjoyed it! It was my first time at the movie theatre here and I was impressed with the facility \u2014 plus senior citizens (!!!) pay around $4 for a movie. Not too bad! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John and I finished \u201cTask\u201d and liked it, and we watched the very violent \u201cNormal\u201d with Bob Odenkirk. I\u2019ve also watched a couple of episodes of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders documentary (shhhh). I finished \u201cEden Undone,\u201d the wild true story from the Galapagos and read \u201cThe Correspondent.\u201d Thanks to Joan for encouraging me to read it, because I\u2019m normally not a fan of books written in the form of letters, but this one was really enjoyable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John went for a tour of GuyOil facilities this week &#8211; who doesn\u2019t love a hard hat?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c1d5aa40-5c7a-4f22-b8f1-1712d439240c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c1d5aa40-5c7a-4f22-b8f1-1712d439240c.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c1d5aa40-5c7a-4f22-b8f1-1712d439240c-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John and I have enjoyed watching some of the World Cup soccer matches this week. He went to the Argentine Embassy on Wednesday to watch the game between Argentina and England (I watched at home), then yesterday we watched the third place playoff game between France and England. This afternoon we are headed to the [&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\/8252"}],"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=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8258,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions\/8258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}