{"id":6576,"date":"2012-08-15T00:05:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T23:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=6576"},"modified":"2012-08-15T00:05:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T23:05:34","slug":"wednesday-15th-august-2012-if-you-cant-beat-em-join-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/15\/wednesday-15th-august-2012-if-you-cant-beat-em-join-em\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 15th August 2012 &#8211; If you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, join &#8217;em!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I\u2019ve got my paws on my Mistress\u2019s new phone and I\u2019ve set it to the \u2018bark\u2019 ring tone. I\u2019ve also been having a go with the radio application and I\u2019ve found two really cool radio stations, there\u2019s \u2018Bad Dog\u2019 radio in Florence, USA, but I can\u2019t get that to work and there\u2019s \u2018Big Dog\u2019 radio, also in America that seems to play country music. It\u2019s very strange having the radio saying good morning to you when it\u2019s the middle of the afternoon. I guess I can\u2019t have everything! I\u2019ve used the camera to take a photo of Ari in front of the tv last night, of course I haven\u2019t worked out how to upload the photo to the computer so I\u2019m afraid I can\u2019t show you. When I can work it out I\u2019ll take a photo of Aristotle doing his physiotherapy exercises. He\u2019s got a \u2018wobble cushion\u2019 that he has to stand his front paws on and then do some exercises. He\u2019s getting the hang of it, with a little encouragement from a treat or two. He loves his food and will do anything as long as there is a clear promise of food. The mere suggestion of food doesn\u2019t work with him. He won\u2019t gamble on the chance of food. If you promise there will be food you have to deliver with Aristotle, he\u2019s nobody\u2019s fool, unlike the rest of us. Me, I\u2019ll do anything on the vague suspicion I may be offered food at any time in the future. Any crumb will do, the very thought of it is enough. It\u2019s going to be like that with the girls over the next few days too as they have both gone on diets. Despite their exercise levels they both seem a little more prone to putting a little extra on around the middle than us boys. It\u2019s a tough world.<\/p>\n<p>Alfie Dog with a little help from Rosemary J Kind&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:alfie@alfiedog.me.uk\">alfie@alfiedog.me.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book is available at Amazon UK &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00583ZGSA\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00583ZGSA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find short stories to read at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfiedog.com\/\">www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Well I\u2019ve got my paws on my Mistress\u2019s new phone and I\u2019ve set it to the \u2018bark\u2019 ring tone. I\u2019ve also been having a go <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/15\/wednesday-15th-august-2012-if-you-cant-beat-em-join-em\/\" title=\"Wednesday 15th August 2012 &#8211; If you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, join &#8217;em!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-6576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-aristotle","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576","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=6576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}