{"id":573898972,"date":"2026-05-13T20:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898972"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:27:29","slug":"domestic-hazards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/05\/13\/domestic-hazards\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic hazards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two great fears in my home-life. One, that a cat will jump out from somewhere and startle me, or do some real damage. I wonder where the kitty could be &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may26\/may16.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The other day she hid under the covers that were bunched up and hanging over the foot of the bed. <em>Where, oh where, is Phoebe?<\/em> That little tail just swishing out in the air. <em>I can&#8217;t see Phoebe anywhere!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The other fear is that a cat will walk across a keyboard at a critical time. There&#8217;s grading to be done. Fortunately, I convinced Poseidon to curl up and take a nap behind the laptop. It&#8217;s a heat source, and he likes to find the warmest spot possible.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may26\/may17.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The grading is coming along. It filled the day. I&#8217;ll be at it for a few more days. Things will probably be light here as I work my way through it all. The most important thing is that the cats are doing well, we are doing well, and you&#8217;ve got a video of an absolutely stunning place below. Enjoy. <\/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=xaayxj8\"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><\/p>\n<p>This incredible view is of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/03\/20\/ros-goill\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tra Na Rossan Beach on the Ros Goill peninsula<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two great fears in my home-life. One, that a cat will jump out from somewhere and startle me, or do some real damage. I wonder where the kitty could be &#8230; The other day she hid under the covers that were bunched up and hanging over the foot of the bed. Where, oh [&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-573898972","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\/573898972","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=573898972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573898973,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898972\/revisions\/573898973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573898972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573898972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573898972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}