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I hate the Middle Ages!<br \/>\nA man works ten lives to evolve and seems to be on track.<br \/>\nBut one bad break and, &quot;Sorry, Jake,&quot; he wakes up three lives back.<br \/>\nThree lives back. I&#8217;ll miss my comfy houses.<br \/>\nThree lives back. I&#8217;ll have to live with louses.<br \/>\nThe only benefit I see so far is peasant blouses.<br \/>\nAnd three lives back, I did have several spouses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was standin&#8217; on the cusp of a whole new cycle. I had made it to the mountaintop, was talkin&#8217; straight to Michael, when a big wind up and tumbled me down like a human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=964\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":741,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=741","url_meta":{"origin":964,"position":0},"title":"Alfred E. 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