{"id":7831,"date":"2013-07-01T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2013-07-01T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:04:07","slug":"monday-1st-july-2013-the-second-half-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2013\/07\/01\/monday-1st-july-2013-the-second-half-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 1st July 2013 &#8211; the second half of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nights are drawing in, it is closer to next Christmas and new year than it is to the last and summer hasn\u2019t even got off the ground yet. I\u2019m beginning to see why the Brits get the reputation for both talking non-stop about the weather and for moaning. We\u2019ve got ample reason to do both. Ok, so we don\u2019t have constant darkness through the winter. Nor do we have famine and drought but what we do have is constant depressing miserable weather. I think that vitamin D should be prescribed to the UK population as a matter of course in an attempt to cheer them up. Either that or household bulbs should be designed in such a way to replicate sunlight to make us more cheerful indoors.<\/p>\n<p>My Master and Mistress went to visit friends at the weekend and didn\u2019t take us with them. All we got was the opportunity to give them a good sniff when they came home. It\u2019s amazing what you can tell by a sniff. It\u2019s a bit like a human can tell when another human has eaten garlic or curry or drunk alcohol but on a much bigger scale. There\u2019s not a lot you can hide from your pets. We always start with checking if you have been unfaithful with anyone else\u2019s pets and then work outwards from there. Food, perfumes, flowers, other people \u2013 anything you have been in contact with is analysed in detail to see if we have missed out on anything important. Once we\u2019re happy we haven\u2019t we can relax again. It\u2019s when we find you have been to see some of our favourite people without us \u2013 that really hurts, although having been fussing another dog is far worse \u2013 far far worse.<\/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>The nights are drawing in, it is closer to next Christmas and new year than it is to the last and summer hasn\u2019t even got <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2013\/07\/01\/monday-1st-july-2013-the-second-half-of-the-year\/\" title=\"Monday 1st July 2013 &#8211; the second half of the year\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831","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=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/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=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}