{"id":16899,"date":"2019-12-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=16899"},"modified":"2019-12-25T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T06:00:00","slug":"christmas-message-2019-wednesday-25th-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2019\/12\/25\/christmas-message-2019-wednesday-25th-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Message 2019 – Wednesday 25th December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Christmas Message 2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well dear pups, my Christmas Message 2019 is likely to be my last Christmas Message. I hope that Wilma will have learnt enough to continue the wisdom for me by next year, but for now it\u2019s still me with all that my life has taught me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Greatest is Love<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pups, there is nothing more important in this world than love.\nSadly, it is what is missing all too often. If you love your fellow men or dogs\nyou think twice before you are impatient with them. You take care not to upset\nthem. You don\u2019t pee on their shoes or find other ways to annoy them\ndeliberately. If you love those around you then you try to do good things for\nthem, take care for them, take time to have a kind word for them and you listen\nto what they need. It is not about diving into your food bowl and leaving them\nhungry. It\u2019s not about nestling down in your favourite blanket and leaving them\ncold. If you love those around you then you make sure they are warm and well\nfed, even before yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even in adversity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The hardest part can be continuing to give love when that is not what you receive in return, but I\u2019m telling you pups, that is what you should do. It isn\u2019t weak to respond with kindness when you face hardness in return, it is strength. If you can continue to love, despite the difficulties then you will be doing something wonderful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Me at Granny and Grandpa’s yesterday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A message to Love yourself too this Christmas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This world has many people who are unhappy. Pups, you need to help\nthem to learn to love themselves. I don\u2019t mean to put themselves first at the\nexpense of others, but to see themselves as worthy of love. You dogs can play a\nvery important part in that. By giving love to a human who does not see\nthemselves as lovable, you can change their lives and that is what you must do.\nHumans need to learn that each and every one of them is lovable and that they\nare special. So pups this Christmas I\u2019m sending you all out to spread love.\nSpread love to each and every human you meet and in turn help them to spread\nlove to their fellow humans and back to us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no limit to love. In fact, the more you give, the\nmore you\u2019ll find there is to go around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Christmas to all you pups and humans<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfie<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well dear pups, my Christmas Message for 2019 is likely to be my last Christmas Message. Read on to see what Alfie has to say.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[109,50],"class_list":["post-16899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wisdom-and-experience","tag-alfie","tag-entlebucher","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16899","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=16899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}