{"id":13996,"date":"2017-12-09T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=13996"},"modified":"2017-12-09T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T06:00:24","slug":"saturday-9th-december-2017-some-me-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/saturday-9th-december-2017-some-me-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 9th December 2017 – Some ‘me’ time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I still love my puppy bed – I just don’t fit in it and there’s no padding left<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I know it\u2019s not normally me on a Saturday, but as Ari and Wilma have gone off to play for the weekend and I\u2019m here without them. I\u2019m being a bit demanding, but it makes such a nice change to have our Mistress all to myself. Well, obviously there is Shadow to contend with but most of the time she is not in the office. I\u2019m still not feeling too good and where my eye has been weeping my fur is quite matted, but I\u2019m not happy letting our Mistress clean it as it\u2019s still hurting. Oh, she\u2019s trying to be gentle, but you know how it is when things are really tender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have absolutely no plans for today, which at my age is just how I like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shadow has been listening to Christmas music again. The funny thing is that whenever there is music with bells playing she thinks it\u2019s the doorbell and gets confused. I\u2019ve suggested she changes the channel she\u2019s listening to, but she says it\u2019s quite jolly and besides which she likes a good bark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the things I\u2019ve realised as I am getting older and a little more infirm is that when I developed all my political policies I may not have paid enough attention to the needs of an elderly dog. There are so many things that can be required to help a dog stay in his own home. Quite apart from that, it really has shown me that our prescriptions should be free. There must be many dogs out there struggling to pay for their medication. Come to that, we should receive a winter fuel allowance to make sure our humans heat our houses to a high enough temperature. All these things are important and no one is doing anything about it. I think I need to talk to Aristotle about him taking a bigger role in campaigning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a happy Saturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfie<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I know it\u2019s not normally me on a Saturday, but as Ari and Wilma have gone off to play for the weekend and I\u2019m here […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[109,63,50],"class_list":["post-13996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-political","tag-alfie","tag-aristotle","tag-entlebucher","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13996","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=13996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}