{"id":83573,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/83573-a-tale-of-a-second-childhood","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/83573","headline":"A Tale of a Second Childhood","content":"In the past years, gone by,\r\nI would drive the old \"floating\r\nbridge\". There was a curve in\r\nthe middle, which would open\r\nfor large boats or with high masts.\r\nI owned a sports car, a Fiat 124 \r\nroadster; color French Blue.\r\nI would drive fast as it was how\r\nI learned, so many years before.\r\nThe sign on the bridge stated,\r\n\"Slow to 45\". Not this driver,\r\nin my convertible toy for\r\nwhen it cornered, at speed, there\r\nwasn't any lean as the Michelin radial tires\r\nwould grip the surface as if glued\r\nto the road or on a track.\r\nI would speed through the curve, hard,\r\nknowing a 4 wheel drift could come,\r\nany time. What a thrill to drive like\r\nI did. I would not drive the way I described \r\nif there were other drivers close to me.\r\nA second childhood, it was.\r\nA toy, the sports car belonging to you. ","content_plain":"In the past years, gone by,\r\nI would drive the old \"floating\r\nbridge\". There was a curve in\r\nthe middle, which would open\r\nfor large boats or with high masts.\r\nI owned a sports car, a Fiat 124 \r\nroadster; color French Blue.\r\nI would drive fast as it was how\r\nI learned, so many years before.\r\nThe sign on the bridge stated,\r\n\"Slow to 45\". Not this driver,\r\nin my convertible toy for\r\nwhen it cornered, at speed, there\r\nwasn't any lean as the Michelin radial tires\r\nwould grip the surface as if glued\r\nto the road or on a track.\r\nI would speed through the curve, hard,\r\nknowing a 4 wheel drift could come,\r\nany time. What a thrill to drive like\r\nI did. I would not drive the way I described \r\nif there were other drivers close to me.\r\nA second childhood, it was.\r\nA toy, the sports car belonging to you. ","published_at":"2021-03-07T23:15:32-08:00","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 Mar/07/2021 on Life Stories - Memories. 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":14,"comments_count":1,"categories":[{"name":"Life Stories - Memories","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/1002-life-stories-memories"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/83573-a-tale-of-a-second-childhood","headline":"A Tale of a Second Childhood","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":"2021-03-07T23:15:32-08:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":14}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Life Stories - Memories","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/1002-life-stories-memories"}]}}