{"id":573898551,"date":"2026-01-01T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898551"},"modified":"2026-01-02T18:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:34:16","slug":"happy-new-year-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poseidon, a cat of action, is ready for 2026. He&#8217;s been helping us put things away, like the Christmas dishes, which have been used since Thanksgiving, back in their place of honor in the heirloom china cabinet.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan26\/jan01.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Phoebe, she&#8217;s more of a thinker, and she&#8217;s not at all sure about 2026. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan26\/jan02.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We are now launching a campaign to try to convince them both that nothing of substance will change this year. They&#8217;ll get cuddles throughout the day. They&#8217;ll still be fed in the evenings. The squirrels and the birds and the rabbits will all be outside, just beyond their reach.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what their resolutions would be, if they made them. <\/p>\n<p>Mine &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<center>Patience | Thoughtfulness | Kindness | Productivity | Personal Peace | Happy Pursuits<\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mine will be ridiculously challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poseidon, a cat of action, is ready for 2026. He&#8217;s been helping us put things away, like the Christmas dishes, which have been used since Thanksgiving, back in their place of honor in the heirloom china cabinet. Phoebe, she&#8217;s more of a thinker, and she&#8217;s not at all sure about 2026. We are now launching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573898551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573898551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573898555,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898551\/revisions\/573898555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573898551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573898551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573898551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}