{"id":1398,"date":"2009-07-20T17:16:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T16:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/07\/20\/1398\/"},"modified":"2009-07-20T17:16:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T16:16:20","slug":"third-time-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/third-time-lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Third time lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/taids\/2120502316\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2125\/2120502316_44fa5f01e0_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\/taids\/2120502316\/\">driving test pass certificate<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/taids\/\">Davey Brown<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Today is a great day: It&#8217;s 40 years since man first set foot on the Moon, and I finally passed my driving test!<\/p>\n<p>It was my third attempt:  The first time I overlooked an unmarked junction, and the second time I was being so careful not to do the same again that I failed for being excessively cautious.<\/p>\n<p>But today everything went smoothly &ndash; I only picked up two driving faults, which is really good (you&#8217;re allowed up to 14 if I remember correctly).<\/p>\n<p>Some of my Danish friends have commented that it must be hard learning to drive on the left, but it actually was surprisingly easy, but then I&#8217;ve lived here for more than seven years now.  It probably would have been much harder if I had tried to pass it just after moving to Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to learn motorway driving (you&#8217;re not allowed near a motorway until you pass the test), and driving on the right next time we&#8217;re on the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>driving test pass certificate Originally uploaded by Davey Brown Today is a great day: It&#8217;s 40 years since man first set foot on the Moon, and I finally passed my driving test! It was my third attempt: The first time I overlooked an unmarked junction, and the second time I was being so careful not to do the same again that I failed for being excessively cautious. But today everything went smoothly &ndash; I only picked up two driving faults, which is really good (you&#8217;re allowed up [&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-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","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=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}