{"id":20665,"date":"2017-03-28T22:44:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20665"},"modified":"2017-03-28T22:44:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:44:29","slug":"happy-trails-part-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20665","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part Five"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s done!<\/p>\n

I finished my work shift today at Street Toyota, said goodbye to a few of my colleagues and friends and then came home.<\/p>\n

But first I had to pick up a couple of things.<\/p>\n

I had mentioned to a few folks there that I never got a cake when I left the Amarillo Globe-News in August 2012. That’s all I wanted: a sheet cake with a “Good Luck” message … and a corner piece with a healthy layer of\u00a0frosting.<\/p>\n

Today I got six cupcakes from Belmar Bakery, which I took home to enjoy with my wife.<\/p>\n

Then I received another very cool gift.<\/p>\n

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It’s a sketch portrait from Benny Hill, one of my\u00a0friends at Street and a fellow with whom I worked at the Globe-News.<\/p>\n

It’s a very good likeness. It has several good wishes written by friends throughout the dealership.<\/p>\n

So, there you have it.<\/p>\n

That’s all she wrote, man. I wept when I left my job at the Oregon City (Ore.) Enterprise-Courier; I did so again when I left the Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise; and, yes, I wept when I departed the Globe-News.<\/p>\n

No tears this time. It is a happy day.<\/p>\n

Now the open road awaits my wife and me … and Toby the Puppy.<\/p>\n\n

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It’s done! I finished my work shift today at Street Toyota, said goodbye to a few of my colleagues and friends and then came home. But first I had to pick up a couple of things. I had mentioned to a few folks there that I never got a cake when I left the Amarillo … Continue reading Happy Trails, Part Five<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3920],"class_list":["post-20665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20669,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20665\/revisions\/20669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}