{"id":24156,"date":"2021-11-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=24156"},"modified":"2021-11-19T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T06:00:00","slug":"existential-dogs-friday-19th-november-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/existential-dogs-friday-19th-november-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Existential Dogs – Friday 19th November 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Existential Dogs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been asked to review a book called Existential Dogs. I\u2019m being honest with you here, I had to look up the meaning of existential. Apparently, it\u2019s something which relates to existence. Aristotle is the philosopher around here, so I went to ask him what he thought. He tried to explain it to me and said, \u2018If Pavlov\u2019s dog had been in a box, how would we know that he would perform the same action for the thought of a reward?\u2019 He\u2019d lost me long before the end of that sentence. I left him to it at the point he was talking about paws clapping and trees being peed on when no one was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Wilma<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stocking Filler<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I went off to find myself a quiet corner to read Existential Dogs and I have to say that some of the questions left me thinking. One of my favourites is \u2018Is it better to have eaten something and thrown it up, and then eaten it again, than never to have eaten it at all?\u2019 And now the whole question of \u2018Who is a good girl?\u2019 is going to be playing in my mind all day. I don\u2019t expect for a minute I\u2019m going to find an answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fun read<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a fun little book and if you know any dog lovers who need a little brightening up, it would be a great gift for them for Christmas. Don\u2019t tell him, but now I\u2019ve read mine I might wrap it up and give it to Dad. I don\u2019t think there are too many paw prints on it, but then as I haven\u2019t yet found out \u2018Who\u2019s a good girl?\u2019 it won\u2019t really matter if there are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Existential Dogs is published by Harper Collins Publishers ISBN 978-0-00-849403-2 You can find it HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Wilma is reading the book Existential Dogs and is left wondering if she will ever find the answer to the question ‘Who’s a good girl?’<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-24156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-test","tag-product-test","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156","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=24156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}