{"id":11992,"date":"2016-08-01T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=11992"},"modified":"2016-08-01T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T05:00:06","slug":"monday-1st-august-2016-im-having-my-portrait-painted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/08\/01\/monday-1st-august-2016-im-having-my-portrait-painted\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 1st August 2016 &#8211; I&#8217;m having my portrait painted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oh this is so exciting. All the others have been part of proper photography sessions with the family and there are some great portraits of them all on the walls at home. Now I\u2019m having my picture drawn by a friend of Mum. He\u2019s going to work from a photograph so I need to decide which is my best expression ready to send to him. Mum wants one of me smiling. She says I often look very serious in photographs and it would be nice if I could give a broad smile. I just can\u2019t wait. I\u2019ll show you of course when it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We went for a very long walk yesterday across the fields towards the next village. Mum said it used to be hers and Megan\u2019s favourite walk. We didn\u2019t go as far as they used to go as Shadow said she was tired and would we mind turning round. Of course we didn\u2019t mind. It\u2019s far more fun walking together than it would be on my own and I do enjoy Shadow\u2019s company. She does get a bit tired now and says that getting older is quite frustrating for her. When she got back I think she might have drunk too much too quickly too as she was sick!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was fun walking along the path through a field of wheat, or it may have been barley. I can\u2019t remember which Mum said was which as they looked quite similar to me. Normally we walk at the side of the field but the path went right through the middle. Mum was telling me about when the field has corn in it and it\u2019s taller than she is. There is a Maize Maze locally that would be really fun to go to. I\u2019ve checked and dogs can go so now I\u2019m asking if she will take me one day.<\/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 this is so exciting. All the others have been part of proper photography sessions with the family and there are some great portraits of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/08\/01\/monday-1st-august-2016-im-having-my-portrait-painted\/\" title=\"Monday 1st August 2016 &#8211; I&#8217;m having my portrait painted\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,63,10,27,93],"class_list":["post-11992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-alfie","tag-aristotle","tag-megan","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}