{"id":388097,"date":"2026-04-08T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388097\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:03:10","slug":"meet-the-artemis-ii-chef-who-loves-spending-his-summers-in-kerry-its-the-people-who-keep-me-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388097\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Artemis II chef who loves spending his summers in Kerry \u2013 \u2018It&#8217;s the people who keep me coming back\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Michael Slintak, who spends his summers in West Kerry, helped to prepare meals for the crew of the historic Artemis II mission\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chef Michael Slintak pictured in front of the Artemis II rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KN Artemis.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Chef Michael Slintak pictured in front of the Artemis II rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With the whole world gripped with the extraordinary and historic exploits of the crew of the Artemis II astronauts, one man who knows them more than most is Florida native Michael Slintak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Even more extraordinary than that is that Michael, a chef, likes to spend a few weeks every summer working and exploring in one of his favourite places in the world, West Kerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Michael Slintak, who spends his summers in West Kerry, helped to prepare meals for the crew of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[14639,61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-388097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-fergus-dennehy","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}