{"id":17025,"date":"2020-01-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=17025"},"modified":"2020-01-30T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:00:00","slug":"counting-down-thursday-30th-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/30\/counting-down-thursday-30th-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Down &#8211; Thursday 30th January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Counting down<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re all counting down to seeing our Master tonight. Wilma is fed up. She normally goes to the station to meet his train, but as our Mistress has to take Alfie with her, Wilma is staying here with me and Shadow. She didn\u2019t see why she couldn\u2019t go too, but our Mistress would not be swayed. It\u2019s funny looking back, when our Master started working away nearly two years ago, Alfie wasn\u2019t too well. He thought when he went he might not see him again. Here we are two years later and Alfie is still going strong and looking forward to seeing our Master as much as the rest of us. <\/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_8909-scaled-e1580313806342-963x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17026\"\/><figcaption>Wilma and her buddy Alfie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Walking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Mistress wanted to walk further yesterday but not on\nuneven ground. I was a bit fed up as it was my turn to go out, but she took Shadow\ninstead. They did 1.3km so there\u2019s definitely an improvement. I\u2019m not sure\nwhich of us is going today but I\u2019m hoping it might be me. Wilma went to day\ncare again yesterday so she got a good run and came back telling us all about\nwhich doggy friends she had been chasing with. She\u2019s enjoying the socialising\nso much that our Mistress has asked if she might like to go for occasional days\neven when she is back to full walking. Wilma didn\u2019t have to think twice about\nit and said \u2018yes, please\u2019. It will give our Mistress an occasional easier day\nwhile she is still looking after Alfie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spring Cleaning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What is it with humans? They get to this time of year and\nstart uttering words like \u2018spring cleaning\u2019. As a dog, when you start hearing\nthings like \u2018I need your bed to put it through the washing machine, Aristotle\u2019,\na shudder runs down your spine. What about the crumbs of biscuits I was storing\nfor later? Does she have no compassion for a dog who likes to keep a midnight\nsnack close at paw? Now I\u2019m going to have to save some new crumbs to rebuild\nsupplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a great Thursday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aristotle<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Aristotle is at the keyboard and Wilma is counting down to her master coming home. She&#8217;s not happy about not going to the station.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,63,50,27,93],"class_list":["post-17025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-alfie","tag-aristotle","tag-entlebucher","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17025","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=17025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}