{"id":10618,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/10618-another-life","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/10618","headline":"Another Life","content":"In years past, I travelled for work.\r\nAt that time in life, it was a small chore,\r\nTo leave home Monday morning and go afore.\r\nSometime by plane, but mostly by car.\r\nBeing the newest to the job, I got the oldest car.\r\nIt ran OK but leaked oil and smoked a bit.\r\nWhen at a light, it was a sobering scene.\r\nThe smoke all around, the color of cream.\r\nSmells from the engine would run amok.\r\nYou could smell me coming for almost a block.\r\nI talked to my boss on many a day.\r\nHe told me to park on the lawn and I would\r\nNot have any crab grass. A joker he was.\r\nComplaining a little, was all I could do.\r\nThen I received news of a car that was new.\r\nDrove to Seattle, as quick as I could,\r\nAnd a new Chevy Bel Air, I quite understood.\r\nThose were the days of good cheer\r\nAnd good friends. Of small happenings\r\nAs the love did long endear.","content_plain":"In years past, I travelled for work.\r\nAt that time in life, it was a small chore,\r\nTo leave home Monday morning and go afore.\r\nSometime by plane, but mostly by car.\r\nBeing the newest to the job, I got the oldest car.\r\nIt ran OK but leaked oil and smoked a bit.\r\nWhen at a light, it was a sobering scene.\r\nThe smoke all around, the color of cream.\r\nSmells from the engine would run amok.\r\nYou could smell me coming for almost a block.\r\nI talked to my boss on many a day.\r\nHe told me to park on the lawn and I would\r\nNot have any crab grass. A joker he was.\r\nComplaining a little, was all I could do.\r\nThen I received news of a car that was new.\r\nDrove to Seattle, as quick as I could,\r\nAnd a new Chevy Bel Air, I quite understood.\r\nThose were the days of good cheer\r\nAnd good friends. Of small happenings\r\nAs the love did long endear.","published_at":"2019-06-21T12:53:36-07:00","updated_at":"2022-06-02T15:12:21-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with MFish on Kudos365. View their post published Jun/21/2019 on Humor. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"post","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","likes_count":8,"categories":[{"name":"Humor","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/915-humor"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/10618-another-life","headline":"Another Life","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"datePublished":"2019-06-21T12:53:36-07:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":8}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Humor","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/915-humor"}]}}