{"id":192,"date":"2005-06-29T23:16:47","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T07:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/test\/2005\/06\/29\/driving-lesson\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T02:46:08","slug":"driving-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/29\/driving-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"driving lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; I&#8217;m attempting the whole driving thing again. (Yes, I do not have my driver&#8217;s license and I realize I am 25). \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>With some pressure from my friends at work, I took the written test a few weeks back, got my permit, and took my first driving lesson yesterday (well, technically, it wasn&#8217;t my first lesson but it&#8217;s been *years* since I&#8217;ve been behind the wheel). I was terrified and nervous for the first 5 minutes (AND almost hit another car, natch) but after the anxiety wore away, it wasn&#8217;t so bad. I have LOTS of hours of practice ahead of me, though&#8230; I need to practice my turns (I have a feeling I go too slowly), get used to traffic, and I have yet to even attempt driving on the freeway (the very thought scares the bejeezus out of me).<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to take the manual driving test by my birthday (October), which gives me about 3 months. You all are my witnesses! I can&#8217;t back down now. EEK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; I&#8217;m attempting the whole driving thing again. (Yes, I do not have my driver&#8217;s license and I realize I am 25). \ud83d\ude1b With some pressure from my friends at work, I took the written test a few weeks back, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/29\/driving-lesson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}