{"id":11890,"date":"2016-07-02T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=11890"},"modified":"2016-07-02T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T05:00:59","slug":"saturday-2nd-july-2016-anyone-got-an-ark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/07\/02\/saturday-2nd-july-2016-anyone-got-an-ark\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 2nd July 2016 &#8211; Anyone got an Ark?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We were sitting quietly minding our own business yesterday when out of nowhere what can only be described as a tropical storm began. Now correct me if I\u2019m wrong, but we don\u2019t live anywhere near the tropics and the weather has not exactly been good enough to expect it to descend into those conditions out of nowhere. Our Mistress was sincerely glad that we\u2019d all been walked as if we\u2019d been out in that none of us would have thought it very funny. It was even too bad for me to consider doing my usual trick of pretending to need to go out, just to get our Mistress to have to go out and stand in the rain waiting for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That reminds me. I\u2019ve got a bit of a bone to pick with humans on our behalf. Will you not have a little respect? If one of us is on the lead and walking with you and we stop to go to the toilet, you carrying on and pulling us along by our collar while we\u2019re still in the process of clearing out, leaves us in the most undignified of positions and is not much fun for any of us. Ok, so our Mistress did it by accident yesterday, but I was in no position to carry on walking and would have been grateful if she could have acknowledged. We had a small discussion about it and she said she could see my point. Then a few minutes later she did exactly the same thing when I was trying to pee. What is a boy to do? It\u2019s just not acceptable. You humans should be more respectful of our needs. You spend long enough going round with little bags clearing up after us, you\u2019d think you could think about it from our point of view too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, have a happy Saturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ari<\/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>We were sitting quietly minding our own business yesterday when out of nowhere what can only be described as a tropical storm began. Now correct <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/07\/02\/saturday-2nd-july-2016-anyone-got-an-ark\/\" title=\"Saturday 2nd July 2016 &#8211; Anyone got an Ark?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-11890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-wisdom-and-experience","tag-aristotle","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11890","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=11890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}