{"id":9868,"date":"2015-02-13T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=9868"},"modified":"2024-04-11T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T16:34:20","slug":"friday-13th-february-2015-the-downside-of-a-short-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2015\/02\/13\/friday-13th-february-2015-the-downside-of-a-short-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 13th February 2015 &#8211; The downside of a short month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is Friday 13<sup>th<\/sup> February. February has 28 days. That means you can look forward to another Friday the 13<sup>th<\/sup> next month. Now I\u2019m not a superstitious dog but I can\u2019t help thinking that having them in consecutive months is just asking for trouble. I did suggest to our Mistress that today might not be the best day to get the paintbrushes out and start on the redecorating work, but that was mainly driven by my desire not to have to help. Besides which I\u2019m still recovering from the upsetting sound of the nail gun yesterday. I really didn\u2019t like that. The drill, the saw, the electric screwdriver \u2013 all of those were ok, but the nail gun startled me and I had to hide under the desk with our Mistress between it and me in the hope that she would protect me. Ok, I admit I\u2019m a coward. I\u2019d fight an assailant to the death to protect her, but I would not stand in the way of any sort of gun \u2013 or for that matter any other thing that goes bang \u2013 a balloon would do it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn\u2019t an easy day all round yesterday. Our Mistress wasn\u2019t feeling well, which with all the noise meant that she wanted to curl up under the desk as well, but I was in that spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, don\u2019t tell them, but I\u2019m really looking forward to seeing Shadow and Aristotle later today. I shall of course act all nonchalant and pretend I don\u2019t care, but deep down I\u2019ve realised that I don\u2019t want to be an only dog. Oh, I\u2019ll be complaining about them again before any time is up, but I don\u2019t want to be without them. It\u2019s just plain weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\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>Today is Friday 13th February. February has 28 days. That means you can look forward to another Friday the 13th next month. Now I\u2019m not <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2015\/02\/13\/friday-13th-february-2015-the-downside-of-a-short-month\/\" title=\"Friday 13th February 2015 &#8211; The downside of a short month\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,3],"tags":[63,86,27],"class_list":["post-9868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crufts","category-day-to-day-life","tag-aristotle","tag-competition","tag-shadow","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868","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=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11533,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions\/11533"}],"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=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}