{"id":6726,"date":"2012-10-10T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=6726"},"modified":"2012-10-10T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T23:05:09","slug":"wednesday-10th-october-2012-aris-swimming-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2012\/10\/10\/wednesday-10th-october-2012-aris-swimming-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 10th October 2012 &#8211; Ari&#8217;s swimming day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aristotle is not a happy puppy. It\u2019s swimming day. He doesn\u2019t want to go but is being told that it is not an option. He did try asking if I could go in his place and quite apart from the fact they might just notice the different between a 30kg seven year old dog and a 25kg one year old dog it was an easy NO! There\u2019s water involved and no one, not anyone, is going to get me near water. He\u2019s on his own on this one. I suggested he could liven it up by trying a new stroke like butterfly, but he said there wasn\u2019t much room for free choice and he had to do what his instructor told him and didn\u2019t get any say.<\/p>\n<p>Tino the Rabbit, my friend, has been getting excited about the prospect of having one of the puppies if both Megan and Shadow turn out to be pregnant. He may even get one if only Shadow is pregnant as long as her litter is of a good size. Their scans are less than two weeks away now and I\u2019m counting down the days. Of course I am excited about the puppies but I\u2019m really counting down to losing my Mistress for a week or two as she will sleep with the girls and not upstairs with me. I slept in the chair outside the room last year, but I\u2019ve got Aristotle to think of this year and I don\u2019t think with Megan having puppies too that my Mistress will want us both outside the door. It\u2019s going to be a tough couple of weeks with no getting into bed at 5. Particularly now the mornings are getting colder I do like to be able to get under the duvet with her.<\/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>Aristotle is not a happy puppy. It\u2019s swimming day. He doesn\u2019t want to go but is being told that it is not an option. He <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2012\/10\/10\/wednesday-10th-october-2012-aris-swimming-day\/\" title=\"Wednesday 10th October 2012 &#8211; Ari&#8217;s swimming day\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[63,14,10,27],"class_list":["post-6726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-dog-breeding","tag-aristotle","tag-breeding","tag-megan","tag-shadow","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726","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=6726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/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=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}