{"id":445,"date":"2006-07-17T09:16:32","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T08:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneandonly.me.uk\/?p=445"},"modified":"2006-07-17T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T08:16:32","slug":"monday-17th-july-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2006\/07\/17\/monday-17th-july-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 17th July 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh diary I am so excited. Today is the day my master and mistress drive back home. I have packed my little bag already and keep running to look out of the window to see if they are here yet. I hope they have brought me back a lovely big present. Obviously the present isn\u2019t the most important thing. If I keep saying that to myself over and over then maybe I will remember to say all the nice things like \u201cHello, I\u2019ve missed you\u201d rather than rushing up to them and saying \u201cWhere\u2019s my present, which bag is it in.\u201d When you feel like this it is hard to concentrate on anything else. One of the other dogs asked if I fancied a game of cards to pass the time whilst I was waiting. It was really nice of him, but I just couldn\u2019t concentrate. He had said snap every time before I noticed that the cards were even vaguely similar. He did try suggesting we should play something like Black Jack and play for money but in my state of mind I was not likely to win. My best bet is probably to spend the day running round the garden to tire myself out so that I can sleep for a while. The only problem with that is that I don\u2019t want to be asleep when they get here.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was quite fun. One of the dogs suggested we organise our own little sports day so we set up an obstacle race and an agility course and a \u2018stick and stone race\u2019, it\u2019s like an egg and spoon race but without the egg and without the spoon! I wanted to do a sack race but we couldn\u2019t find any sacks at short notice. There was an elderly dog that said he would act as referee as he really was a bit past taking part. This worked until he fell asleep half way through the 400 metres hurdles. We were just having an argument about whether the sheltie should be disqualified for running underneath and she was saying that as she only had little legs she didn\u2019t have much choice, when we turned to the referee for a decision and found him snoring. I would have won a couple of the races if I hadn\u2019t wasted time laughing at the other dogs. A St Bernard might be lovely but they aren\u2019t built for agility and there was a young puppy that reminded of me a few months ago, not yet being able to corner, he ran straight into a flower bed and got all tangled in some ivy. It\u2019s a shame we can\u2019t do it all again today to pass the time, but we caused too much damage yesterday and have been told we can\u2019t do it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Oh diary I am so excited. Today is the day my master and mistress drive back home. I have packed my little bag already and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2006\/07\/17\/monday-17th-july-2006\/\" title=\"Monday 17th July 2006\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","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\/445","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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}