{"id":573898874,"date":"2026-04-01T20:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898874"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:39:23","slug":"happy-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/04\/01\/happy-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No April fools jokes here. I&#8217;m only fooling around with the usual stuff. I cleaned up my computer. I updated my cycling spreadsheet &#8212; I need to ride more. I updated my website spreadsheet &#8212; we&#8217;re on pace for another record year. I updated some templates that serve the site. <\/p>\n<p>I did some work for classes. This includes writing a lecture that is, really, a shot in the dark. Also I had to watch a documentary that we&#8217;re watching in another class. There&#8217;s also a lot of grading getting done in my online class. We&#8217;ve been reading Jenny Davis&#8217; discussion on affordances, which means we&#8217;re about to head into the final project of the semester. It&#8217;s a busy time. <\/p>\n<p>And so you make time for all of that by tearing yourself away from the fun stuff, like these guys. How can you turn away from a face as cute as this one?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr26\/apr01.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Her brother, meanwhile, is clowning around in the kitchen. He&#8217;s stretching this &#8220;I&#8217;m on the mail, not on the counter&#8221; thing to the limit here. But if he&#8217;s being cute and not being a jerk he usually gets a pass. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr26\/apr02.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The kitties are doing great. They are not, however, doing my work for me. We&#8217;re going to have a talk about that. <\/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=xaa7e4y\"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>The sheep are everywhere. You can tune them out or enjoy the novelty of it. I won&#8217;t be putting a bunch of ovine videos up, but it&#8217;s tempting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No April fools jokes here. I&#8217;m only fooling around with the usual stuff. I cleaned up my computer. I updated my cycling spreadsheet &#8212; I need to ride more. I updated my website spreadsheet &#8212; we&#8217;re on pace for another record year. I updated some templates that serve the site. I did some work for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,6,10,9,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573898874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","category-memories","category-photo","category-site","category-video","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898874","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=573898874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573898875,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898874\/revisions\/573898875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573898874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573898874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573898874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}