{"id":11855,"date":"2016-06-23T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=11855"},"modified":"2016-06-23T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T05:00:03","slug":"thursday-23rd-june-2016-vote-early-vote-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/23\/thursday-23rd-june-2016-vote-early-vote-often\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 23rd June 2016 &#8211; Vote Early, Vote Often"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/11Dog1Vote-colour-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"(1)1Dog1Vote colour\" class=\"wp-image-9527\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh I know these days you can\u2019t get away with voting multiple times, but it\u2019s always worth a try. I think Wilma is planning to go with our Mistress to vote. She\u2019s never been to a polling station before and for a number of reasons our Mistress thought it would be a good idea. She\u2019s already been telling Wilma about the suffragettes and all they did to secure the vote for women in this country. She\u2019s told Wilma about the Pet Dogs Democratic Party too and my failed attempts to secure the vote for dogs. I\u2019ve semi-retired from politics now, but maybe it\u2019s something Wilma would like to take on as she gets older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Mistress considers her right to vote so important and such a privilege that she cannot actually put her cross on the ballot paper without finding herself in tears. There are few things more important to her than the liberties and freedoms afforded to her by living in a democracy where she has equal rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other reason it\u2019s interesting for Wilma to go is that she is actually a Swiss national and not English at all, but we\u2019re keeping quiet about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You already know how important our Mistress thinks today\u2019s vote is, both for humans and for the development of our breed here in the UK. She cares passionately about the opportunities that membership of the EU brings and will not be a happy person tomorrow if things have gone wrong. She did wonder what would happen if those who want to stay in Europe all turned up on the doorstep of France, Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium tomorrow saying \u2018We\u2019ve come to stay\u2019. There have been some lovely videos of people around Europe expressing their sentiment of wanting Great Britain to remain. We just hope that the rest of Great Britain has been listening!<\/p>\n\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>Oh I know these days you can\u2019t get away with voting multiple times, but it\u2019s always worth a try. I think Wilma is planning to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/23\/thursday-23rd-june-2016-vote-early-vote-often\/\" title=\"Thursday 23rd June 2016 &#8211; Vote Early, Vote Often\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[109,43,93],"class_list":["post-11855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-political","category-wisdom-and-experience","tag-alfie","tag-switzerland","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11855","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}