{"id":17732,"date":"2020-08-18T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=17732"},"modified":"2020-08-18T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:00:06","slug":"little-princess-tuesday-18th-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/08\/18\/little-princess-tuesday-18th-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Princess &#8211; Tuesday 18th August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Little Princess<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Shadow is being a little princess. Oh I know it\u2019s in her kennel name (Aisha Princess of Beauty) but she really does have moments of living up to it. I think if she thought about it she would demand her dinner served on a velvet cushion. We don\u2019t actually have any velvet cushions so she\u2019d probably have a long wait. When she is not happy about arrangements she really does have a way of making it known. That stare is one she will turn on any of us at a moment\u2019s notice. Caught under the Shadow\u2019s glare, I defy any of you to not go along with what she wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0246-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17733\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pack leader<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>She asked me to take over as pack leader when I moved in nearly five years ago. What I didn\u2019t realise for a very long time is that that role is only mine as long as I conduct my duties in a way she is happy with. If I step out of line, even for a moment, then she has reserved the right to veto my decisions and enforce the law. You should see us when it comes to bedtime and we go up to the bedroom. We always have an argument on the way up and I do mean always. Then from the landing it is a race to see who gets the big bed first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t really know why I feel the need to compete in this way as I only leave it empty and get in with Mum, but pride means I can\u2019t let this one go. I don\u2019t always win and we never continue the argument after that. It\u2019s almost become a game. However, I am in no doubt that if she really minded I would not get my way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where is Aristotle in all this?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s so funny. Aristotle is not willing to argue with his mother over anything. He just says \u2018leave me out of it\u2019 and walks away. Actually, he more runs away than walks. He\u2019s such a softie. Mum calls him \u2018bear\u2019 because he just wants to be cuddled and loved.<\/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>Shadow is being a little princess and Wilma is not about to argue &#8211; no one argues with Shadow, at least not twice.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,50,27,93],"class_list":["post-17732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","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\/17732","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=17732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}