{"id":573898860,"date":"2026-03-25T20:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898860"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:21:19","slug":"new-book-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/03\/25\/new-book-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"New book alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoebe would like to let you know about a book that you should add to your bookcase. Look carefully at the authors. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar26\/mar186.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice living with an expert. Her consultation fees, however, are rather steep. <\/p>\n<p>It was cute how she played this off. I told her she&#8217;d gotten a delivery today. &#8220;Oh? Hmmm. What&#8217;s in that box? I don&#8217;t recall ordering anything. Oh! This came out! And ahead of schedule!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How do you think I should play it, when I read this book? Should I pretend like I found a typo? Take issue with some key point inside? Say they spelled her name wrong somewhere inside? Carry it door to door? Talk about it in every class next semester? So many choices. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerwildatlanticway.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still living in the happy memories of our wonderful Irish vacation. So, I&#8217;m sharing extra videos that we didn&#8217;t get to at the time. It was a great vacation. I have a lot of footage. This will go on for some time. Enjoy it with me, won&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=xaa2kpa\"style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"allowfullscreentitle=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"allow=\"web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/03\/16\/up-the-west-coast-a-bit\/\">Tr\u00e1 an D\u00f3il\u00edn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoebe would like to let you know about a book that you should add to your bookcase. Look carefully at the authors. It&#8217;s nice living with an expert. Her consultation fees, however, are rather steep. It was cute how she played this off. I told her she&#8217;d gotten a delivery today. &#8220;Oh? Hmmm. What&#8217;s in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,6,10,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573898860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","category-memories","category-photo","category-video","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898860","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=573898860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573898861,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898860\/revisions\/573898861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573898860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573898860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573898860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}