{"id":399,"date":"2013-06-04T03:22:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordproject.org\/news\/?p=399"},"modified":"2013-06-04T03:22:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:22:34","slug":"drivers-license-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Driver&#8217;s license in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Joana<\/p>\n<p>Now that I am a proud holder of a Kenyan driver\u2019s license, I can finally relax and look back on that crazy day of my driving test.<\/p>\n<p>I got to Rocky s Driving School headquarters in the center of town by 8:30. The small back room was already packed, and the seats were all claimed so I leaned against the wall. At precisely 9:30 the big red Rocky\u2019s pickup truck rumbled to a stop outside. \u00a0The instructions were for us to get in the back. \u00a0Then started the mad scramble for space, which reminded me of something that my friend once told me ; \u2019Kenyan\u2019s have space mania.\u2019 I would say it was justifiable, though, as the truck only had skinny benches lining both sides, and we were at least 50 people. No time to waste, the truck started and we were thrown back and forth, grabbing onto everything from railing to each others\u2019 shirts to keep footing. But it was an enjoyable ride. I liked the open air feeling and watching Nairobi wiz by in a flash of color and dust.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read the rest of this post\" href=\"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/?page_id=396\" target=\"_blank\">Continue to read<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joana Now that I am a proud holder of a Kenyan driver\u2019s license, I can finally relax and look back on that crazy day of my driving test. I got to Rocky s Driving School headquarters in the center &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/?p=399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordproject_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}