{"id":62,"date":"2002-11-03T18:16:15","date_gmt":"2002-11-03T18:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2002\/11\/03\/driving-in-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2002-11-03T18:16:15","modified_gmt":"2002-11-03T18:16:15","slug":"driving-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2002\/11\/03\/driving-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I spotted a link to <a title=\"WSJ.com - Getting a Driver's License Is a Royal Pain in Britain\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/0,,SB1035928429428960871,00.html\">this Wall Street Journal article<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obscurestore.com\/\">Jim Romenesko&#8217;s Obscure Store and Reading Room<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the quotes are pretty easy to laugh at (hint: it&#8217;s about being in control of the car, stupid!):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It also calls for such maneuvers as driving backwards around a corner and up the street along the curb. Touch the curb with the wheel and you flunk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My favourite part is the way they completely fail to connect &#8220;Britain&#8217;s pass rate is under 44% and falling&#8221; with &#8220;Britain has one of the world&#8217;s lowest auto fatality rates&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I spotted a link to this Wall Street Journal article in Jim Romenesko&#8217;s Obscure Store and Reading Room. Some of the quotes are pretty easy to laugh at (hint: it&#8217;s about being in control of the car, stupid!): It also calls for such maneuvers as driving backwards around a corner and up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}