{"id":18778,"date":"2020-12-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=18778"},"modified":"2020-12-19T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T06:00:00","slug":"do-not-tell-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/12\/19\/do-not-tell-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Tell Mum – Saturday 19th December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do not tell Mum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Please do not tell Mum, you see, she sent me to spend some time working on my Christmas Address earlier and I didn\u2019t. Instead, I wrote my letter to Santa Paws. I know you\u2019ll all tune in for my words of wisdom on Christmas Day and I promise I will think hard about that, but I really really needed to tell Santa Paws what I want this year. You see, I might actually have been good for once, if you disregard breaking Aristotle. In my defence that was an accident. I just didn\u2019t want to miss the opportunity of getting my letter in to Santa in time for him to act on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Letter to Santa Paws<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dear Santa Paws, it\u2019s Wilma here. You know how hard I find it to be good, but I\u2019ve really tried ever so hard this year. Mum has needed me to be a support dog and really I\u2019ve tried. I\u2019ve tried not to take up too much of her bed and to get out when asked. I\u2019ve tried not to bring too much mud into the house, not deliberately anyway. Oh, I\u2019m sorry about the vegetables. I just can\u2019t resist them, but I do try, honestly I do. I\u2019ve always been there when Mum wants me. And to be frank, sometimes when she doesn\u2019t. I\u2019ve made sure my humans know how much I love them and I\u2019ve been nice to Shadow and Aristotle\u2026 most of the time. Anyway, I think it\u2019s the best I can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So here\u2019s what I want<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now I\u2019ve got all that out of the way, Santa, please could you see if you can put me on the \u2018good\u2019 list. It\u2019s not that I want very much for myself. I know I\u2019m a spoiled girl already and I only have to ask Mum for something and it\u2019s there. It\u2019s not things like beds and collars that I want this Christmas. Please Santa Paws, can you help with the things that money can\u2019t buy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You see, Shadow is missing Dad dreadfully. And, let\u2019s be honest, Santa Paws so are Mum and me. Please can you bring him home to us as soon as the world is safe? And when it is Santa, I really want to be able to see Mama and my sisters Valeria and Tosca. I do miss them all so very much. I want to be able to walk on my mountain again and breath the lovely mountain air. I want it to be safe for Mum to go to see my grandparents and to be fair, for her to see anybody. Please Santa, can you arrange for humans to sort themselves out so that the world can return to normal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love from a Wilma Dog who is trying really really hard to be a good girl.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do not tell Mum – Wilma has been writing her letter to Santa Paws when she was supposed to be drafting her Christmas message.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[123,50,27,43,93],"class_list":["post-18778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","tag-christmas","tag-entlebucher","tag-shadow","tag-switzerland","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18778","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=18778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}