{"id":328,"date":"2007-10-10T18:13:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T23:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theholtsite.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/10\/learning-to-drive-standard\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T18:17:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T23:17:39","slug":"learning-to-drive-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/328\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Drive Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to report that I&#8217;ve made progress!  For a while there I thought I would never get the hang of this.  I guess Ben&#8217;s &#8220;forcing&#8221; me to do a route on the highway was a good thing.  I was sweating my barnacles off and quite scarred and nervous, but in the end&#8230;I DID IT!  I was proud (isn&#8217;t anyone going to give me a token for this?) and was glad I was made to do so. \ud83d\ude42  So, a few days ago I practiced some of our local roads on my own.  I went at 7:30 am so that I wouldn&#8217;t run into many other cars!  Then, this past weekend, I went to my friends house, then over to Merrills house, and back home! Woo-hoo!  I did pretty good.  Still have LOTS of practicing I need to do, but I think I&#8217;ve made it over the hump. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogpicts\/jillmap.jpg\" alt=\"jills travels\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grandad, are you out there? We hear you just got a beetle \ud83d\ude42  Is it a standard too?   Thinkin&#8217; of you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to report that I&#8217;ve made progress! For a while there I thought I would never get the hang of this. I guess Ben&#8217;s &#8220;forcing&#8221; me to do a route on the highway was a good thing. I was sweating my barnacles off and quite scarred and nervous, but in the end&#8230;I DID IT! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}