{"id":23931,"date":"2021-09-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=23931"},"modified":"2021-09-04T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T05:00:00","slug":"falling-off-a-log-saturday-4th-september-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2021\/09\/04\/falling-off-a-log-saturday-4th-september-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling off a log – Saturday 4th September 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Falling off a log<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is an expression in the English language \u2018as easy as falling off a log\u2019. I can confirm that makes something very easy indeed. The things I do in the name of art. There was this tree. More of an ex-tree. It had fallen down at some point and was lying there minding its own business. Mum got it into her head that I\u2019d look good standing on the trunk. This is what happens when she takes her proper camera out for a walk with us. The trunk was too high for me to jump onto where she wanted me and this is where it got complicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking a tightrope<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are dogs out there on Youtube who can walk on tightropes. I am not one of them. I\u2019m a fairly well balanced dog, but I\u2019m no ballerina. I jumped up onto the trunk at the point that looked safe, but then realised I was facing in the wrong direction. My first problem was doing a pirouette to face the other way. I would have scored about 7 for my execution of that manoeuvre. One paw slipped a bit but I regained my composure. If only I\u2019d stopped there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting into position<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow walk along the trunk to here,\u201d Mum said. If I had had my harness on she could have supported me, but no, in the name of art I\u2019d stripped naked. An oak tree\u2019s trunk is not even and I missed my paw-hold. Before I knew it, I was lying on the floor next to the trunk wondering what went wrong. Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m fine, but I did feel a little stunned by the episode. Mum was great and gave me cuddles, checked me over and asked if anything hurt. \u201cPride,\u201d I said, but she couldn\u2019t do much for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She took my photo next to the tree instead, but it really didn\u2019t have the same effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next time someone says something is as easy as falling off a log, Wilma will compare it to the real thing to see if she agrees.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-23931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23931","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=23931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}