{"id":2289,"date":"2008-10-20T07:50:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T06:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneandonly.me.uk\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2008-10-20T07:50:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T06:50:39","slug":"monday-20th-october-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2008\/10\/20\/monday-20th-october-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 20th October 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m feeling nervous about going to my training session. I feel a bit excited too, it\u2019s always nice to be the centre of attention. I need to behave well enough that I don\u2019t disgrace myself and badly enough that no one concludes I don\u2019t need all this special attention.<\/p>\n<p>There is some special attention that I can well do without. In particular the being wrestled to the ground and man handled in order to put nasty drops in my eyes. How would they like it if I did something like that to them? Have you ever seen me take them by the scruff of the neck and force them onto the ground? No. So what makes them think that they\u2019ve got the right to do it to me? If I were to present a fair picture my Mistress didn\u2019t start by wrestling, she asked me very nicely to sit in front of her and then spoke to me soothingly, whilst wielding a massive great eye drop tube in my general direction. I moved at exactly the right moment and she squirted the first lot onto the carpet. The second lot did at least get as far as my blanket, where I had retreated to escape the ordeal. It was only then that she sent for reinforcements and the soothing words became \u201cCome here you little xxxxxx\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There was a moment yesterday when I regretted having fallen out with my usual dog training. They had an assault course set up in the field outside our house and it looked such tremendous fun. There is nothing like missing out on something enjoyable to focus the mind on how you ought to have behaved. Still it was too late and I had to resort to begging for some fun things like that as birthday presents next month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I\u2019m feeling nervous about going to my training session. I feel a bit excited too, it\u2019s always nice to be the centre of attention. I <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2008\/10\/20\/monday-20th-october-2008\/\" title=\"Monday 20th October 2008\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","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=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}