{"id":11704,"date":"2016-03-19T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=11512"},"modified":"2016-03-19T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T06:00:57","slug":"saturday-19th-march-2016-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/03\/19\/saturday-19th-march-2016-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 19th March 2016 &#8211; Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy weekend everyone. It\u2019s Ari here. It seems like ages since I\u2019ve been given the chance to write to you. Now I\u2019m not looking for sympathy, but life has been pretty tough for me recently. It seems I cause Alfie stress. I really can\u2019t think how. Anyway, he has wanted me out of the way quite a bit. It means I either get to sit in a room on my own, which is not my idea of fun or I have to agree to be on my lead and stay by our Mistress\u2019s side when Alfie is either around or generally feeling stressed. There is an upside. I do get to stay close to our Mistress which is the best place to be, but it does rather cut down on my opportunities for trouble making or wrestling with Wilma. It\u2019s given me some time to go through the family photo albums with Wilma and dig out some pictures of when we were all small to show her. It made me think you might all like to see a \u2018then and now\u2019 comparison of all of us. So here goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First up is Alfie. Here is at 3 months old with his mother and then on the right here he is ten years later.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/alfie02_19_02_06.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11513\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/alfie02_19_02_06-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"Alfie with his mum Anka.\" class=\"wp-image-11513\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alfie with his mum Anka.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3032.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11516\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3032-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alfie 10yrs 4 months\" class=\"wp-image-11516\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alfie 10yrs 4 months<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Then Shadow \u2013 on the left at about 10 weeks old and on the right as she is now aged 7<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/all-175.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11514\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/all-175-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Shadow\" class=\"wp-image-11514\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3034.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11517\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3034-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shadow 7yrs 1 month\" class=\"wp-image-11517\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shadow 7yrs 1 month<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Next up is me. I could have shown a picture of me as nothing more than a peanut, being only 292g when I was born, but here I am at about ten weeks and then now aged 4 and a half.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Aristotle-002.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11515\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Aristotle-002-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Aristotle\" class=\"wp-image-11515\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aristotle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3029.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11518\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3029-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Aristotle 4yrs 6 months\" class=\"wp-image-11518\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aristotle 4yrs 6 months<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Last and by no means least is Wilma.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wilma_150822_01.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10416\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wilma_150822_01-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wilma\" class=\"wp-image-10416\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wilma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3030.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11519\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3030-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wilma nearly 8 months\" class=\"wp-image-11519\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wilma nearly 8 months<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>You can find short stories to read at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfiedog.com\">www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book as well as our other books are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=rosemary%20j%20kind\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Happy weekend everyone. It\u2019s Ari here. It seems like ages since I\u2019ve been given the chance to write to you. Now I\u2019m not looking for <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/03\/19\/saturday-19th-march-2016-then-and-now\/\" title=\"Saturday 19th March 2016 &#8211; Then and Now\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,63,50,53,27,93],"class_list":["post-11704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-alfie","tag-aristotle","tag-entlebucher","tag-puppies","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}