{"id":2598,"date":"2015-03-30T20:20:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2015-03-30T20:20:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:20:26","slug":"been-a-rough-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"Been a Rough Week &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230; and it&#8217;s only Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Late Saturday night, Terese left her purse in a taxi here in Ankara.\u00a0 After getting home I jumped on the phone to get debit and credit cards cancelled.\u00a0 I sat on the phone for 20 minutes listening to something resembling music that just grinds the mind when all you can think about, is getting the cards cancelled before someone books an all expense paid trip to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, some character named Renaldo came on line.\u00a0 He sounded so laid back, I could have sworn he was smoking pot while talking to me.\u00a0 I think I could actually hear him taking long draws from an illegal substance, and by the time I got off the phone, the room seemed rather unusual.\u00a0 Almost floating.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the couple who recently got married here?\u00a0 Allison is a Foreign Service officer and Serkan is a guard at the Embassy.\u00a0 I explained our predicament to them, and Serkan jumped on the phone and within a few hours, the purse showed up at the Embassy gate.\u00a0 Everything seems to be intact, although the debit and credit cards are no longer valid.<\/p>\n<p>For those in the family, if that happens to you, remember the information listed at the end of the notorious NAPE list.\u00a0 Those are the numbers I called.\u00a0 Just be patience when listening to the droning music and then talking to someone who sounds stoned.<\/p>\n<p>Kick butt.\u00a0 D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and it&#8217;s only Monday. Late Saturday night, Terese left her purse in a taxi here in Ankara.\u00a0 After getting &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=2598\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tztR-FU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}