{"id":16956,"date":"2020-01-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=16956"},"modified":"2020-01-09T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T06:00:00","slug":"guard-duty-thursday-9th-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/09\/guard-duty-thursday-9th-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"On Guard Duty &#8211; Thursday 9th January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On Guard Duty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m on guard duty. I\u2019ve decided that Alfie needs an extra layer of protection and that\u2019s my job. I can sit by Mum\u2019s chair and see out of the front window to make sure no one comes to the house. Then I circle round and round the lounge just to be on the safe side. There\u2019s a window at the back too so I can go behind the settee and look down the garden. I think I\u2019m fulfilling an important job and that the rest of the household should be grateful to me. The odd thing is that they see it a little differently. Alfie says he really wants complete calm and quiet as he just wants to rest. Mum says if I knock the vase off the window sill one more time I will be in very big trouble. That\u2019s not the sort of response I was looking for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_8816-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16957\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beef jerky<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, I\u2019m really kicking myself that I didn\u2019t think of it\nfirst. Aristotle has upgraded his demands to do what is required to a piece of\nbeef jerky on each occasion. I\u2019m annoyed that not only did he look on the\ncounter and find the beef jerky in the first place, but also that having done\nso he worked out how to get offered pieces at regular intervals. Mum has said\nwhen it\u2019s run out she won\u2019t be buying anymore as she hates the smell. If Ari goes\non strike something tells me she will overcome those feelings pretty quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Big Day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s quite a big day today as Mum goes to the hospital and\nwill find out if she can start driving again. More to the point she will find\nout if she can start walking with us again. She\u2019s told me not to get too excited\ntoo soon as she will have to build up slowly. How well does she know me? Of\ncourse I\u2019m going to get very excited very quickly \u2013 but apparently that might\nnot be helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Wilma is on guard duty as an extra layer of protection for Alfie. She&#8217;s not sure what she&#8217;s protecting him from though.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,63,50,93],"class_list":["post-16956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-alfie","tag-aristotle","tag-entlebucher","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956","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=16956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}