{"id":9383,"date":"2014-08-30T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=9383"},"modified":"2014-08-30T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T05:00:33","slug":"saturday-30th-august-2014-upstaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2014\/08\/30\/saturday-30th-august-2014-upstaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 30th August 2014 &#8211; Upstaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tucker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9384\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tucker-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tucker\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/a>We were upstaged by Tucker yesterday. We all remembered to wish our Mistress a happy birthday but Tucker, one of Shadow\u2019s puppies from her second litter, went one better and made a notice to hang round his neck for a photo to send to her. Ari and he are so similar it\u2019s almost scary. I\u2019m sure he won\u2019t mind us showing you. He and Ari are very similar even though they have different dads. They are both equally naughty as well, which we are blaming on Shadow. His humans say his photo looks like a police one, but I don\u2019t think he\u2019s done anything quite that bad yet! Heaven forbid that the two of them should spend very much time together. You would think turning 49 is bad enough, but my Mistress is already making a list of things she could do for her 50<sup>th<\/sup> birthday next year and I\u2019m pleased to say she seems to have got her priorities right as she\u2019s thinking of things that can include us.<\/p>\n<p>Shadow is still improving and is strong enough to have arguments again. The problem is that she has been in my bed in the office all week and I\u2019d rather hoped to have it back. She is not so keen. At one point she was in the other room so that I could have a little peace but she just howled and made a nuisance of herself and wouldn\u2019t stop until I gave the bed up. We reached a sort of compromise in the afternoon with her lying curled round the wheels of my Mistress\u2019s chair and me in the bed. It meant that my Mistress couldn\u2019t change position and having her that close I didn\u2019t completely relax either!<\/p>\n<p>I did have quite a nice time swimming yesterday. Without Ari there to wind me up it was rather more relaxed. I\u2019m doing rather well and would almost be prepared to say I don\u2019t mind going now.<\/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>We were upstaged by Tucker yesterday. We all remembered to wish our Mistress a happy birthday but Tucker, one of Shadow\u2019s puppies from her second <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2014\/08\/30\/saturday-30th-august-2014-upstaged\/\" title=\"Saturday 30th August 2014 &#8211; Upstaged\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,76,27],"class_list":["post-9383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-aristotle","tag-bossanova","tag-shadow","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383","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=9383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383\/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=9383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}