{"id":1488,"date":"2006-03-20T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/20\/whats-so-hard-about-driving-on-the-left-side-of-the-road\/"},"modified":"2006-03-20T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T05:10:00","slug":"whats-so-hard-about-driving-on-the-left-side-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/whats-so-hard-about-driving-on-the-left-side-of-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s so hard about driving (on the left side of the road)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.  The blinkers are on the right side of the steering wheel.  The windshield wipers are on the left side.  Hilarity ensues.<\/p>\n<p>2.  The gear shift is obviously on the right, where it should be, but your brain will always take a few seconds to register it.<\/p>\n<p>3.  Left hand turns are the hardest to make.  Your instincts make you feel wrong about turning directly into the left lane.<\/p>\n<p>4.  The rear view mirror is on your left.  Therefore you won&#8217;t use it.  Instead you&#8217;ll stare into your drivers side mirror for several minutes until you realize you really can&#8217;t see people directly behind you.<\/p>\n<p>If I think of anything else, I&#8217;ll let you know.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The blinkers are on the right side of the steering wheel. The windshield wipers are on the left side. Hilarity ensues. 2. The gear shift is obviously on the right, where it should be, but your brain will always take a few seconds to register it. 3. Left hand turns are the hardest to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}