{"id":2942,"date":"2005-11-15T16:13:03","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T15:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/11\/15\/things-ive-noticed-about-these-american-drivers\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:48:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:48:07","slug":"things-ive-noticed-about-these-american-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/11\/things-ive-noticed-about-these-american-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;ve noticed about these American drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans drive on the wrong side of the road! This makes it extremely confusing and dangerous for normal people to cross the road &#8211; Darwinism in reverse.<\/p>\n<p>And everyone here drives automatics. Where I come from, automatics are for girls who can&#8217;t get their head around how a stick works. You can&#8217;t pop a decent wheelie in an automatic or drive a sports car properly. I guess sticks are for expert drivers, expert drivers like me who remember to pull up the handbrake for Nathan when he parks on a slope&#8230; and not like how he drives off with the handbrake still on, or how he continually reminds me who has the license when I give him expert driving advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans drive on the wrong side of the road! This makes it extremely confusing and dangerous for normal people to cross the road &#8211; Darwinism in reverse. And everyone here drives automatics. Where I come from, automatics are for girls who can&#8217;t get their head around how a stick works. You can&#8217;t pop a decent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,408,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-diary","category-travelog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}