{"id":1172,"date":"2009-03-12T22:36:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T22:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/03\/12\/1172\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T22:36:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T22:36:36","slug":"whats-the-hatchback-made-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/whats-the-hatchback-made-of\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the hatchback made of?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ndrwfgg\/94080949\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/41\/94080949_6293dbc994_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ndrwfgg\/94080949\/\">Polo<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/ndrwfgg\/\">ndrwfgg<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Phyllis used to give me a few driving lessons in her old Citro\u00ebn Picasso, and we bought <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L_plate\">L plates<\/a> for that reason.<\/p>\n<p>For various reasons, I stopped learning to drive temporarily, but I&#8217;ve now started again, this time with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glasgowdrivinginstructor.co.uk\/\">a real instructor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, we thought it&#8217;d be good to get some additional experience, so Phyllis has now added me onto her insurance (funnily enough, it&#8217;s cheaper while I only have a provisional license than it&#8217;ll be after I pass the test).<\/p>\n<p>We were going for a quick drive after dinner, and we were going to put on the L plates when we discovered that the entire back end of our Citro\u00ebn C8 is non-magnetic, so the plate won&#8217;t stick.  The rest of the car is fine, but the law says that one of the L plates needs to go on the back.<\/p>\n<p>We stuck in on with sticky tape, but it&#8217;s just such a hassle compared to having a car made of iron!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polo Originally uploaded by ndrwfgg Phyllis used to give me a few driving lessons in her old Citro\u00ebn Picasso, and we bought L plates for that reason. For various reasons, I stopped learning to drive temporarily, but I&#8217;ve now started again, this time with a real instructor. However, we thought it&#8217;d be good to get some additional experience, so Phyllis has now added me onto her insurance (funnily enough, it&#8217;s cheaper while I only have a provisional license than it&#8217;ll be after I pass the test). We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}