{"id":4224,"date":"2011-12-21T06:49:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:33:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T05:33:04","slug":"an-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2011\/12\/21\/an-accomplishment\/","title":{"rendered":"An accomplishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, here&#8217;s something I bet you didn&#8217;t know about me: until very recently I did not have my driver&#8217;s license. Yesterday, however, I passed my driving test and am now licensed to drive by myself. Quite frankly the thought of that scares me! But I am now officially able to do it.<\/p>\n<p>I just have never wanted to drive. I still don&#8217;t really want to, but with Rainbow Girl needing to get to gymnastics training a good number of days per week, it became necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Australia, we have a system where learner drivers have to accrue 120 hours of driving practice before they can take their driving test. Fortunately this changed a few years ago, so that drivers over 25 (which I am just *slightly* over) no longer have to do the 120 hours, just as many as they need to learn to drive well.<\/p>\n<p>However, because I didn&#8217;t have to do the 120 hours of practice, I feel that I have cheated (I did not, though!) by not having to do it. I feel very inexperienced, and very much like I am not ready to drive by myself. However the driving tester obviously felt that I was good enough, or they wouldn&#8217;t have passed me.<\/p>\n<p>So if you see me out on the road, give me a wave and a nice wide berth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, here&#8217;s something I bet you didn&#8217;t know about me: until very recently I did not have my driver&#8217;s license. Yesterday, however, I passed my driving test and am now licensed to drive by myself. Quite frankly the thought of that scares me! But I am now officially able to do it.<\/p>\n<p>I just have [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-threads-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}