{"id":5497,"date":"2013-11-04T06:51:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2013-11-04T06:51:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:51:43","slug":"ur-turn-getting-my-first-driver%e2%80%99s-license-at-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5497","title":{"rendered":"Ur Turn: Getting My First Driver\u2019s License At 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/2013\/11\/ur-turn-getting-my-first-drivers-license-at-25\/\">Tova Schreiber<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m sitting at my desk, waiting for students to arrive and thinking about cars. Waking up at 6:00 on a Sunday morning is rarely fun, but I truly love what I do for a living. My fingers are stained from last night\u2019s dye job, and they clutch a tall Styrofoam cup of hot chocolate. Together with a calorie-laden croissant, it\u2019s a breakfast of champions that fuels my discussions as a teacher.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;I filled the tank in my brother\u2019s old Focus wagon a few weeks ago, spending what was small fortune to me to repay a favor of his. That car isn\u2019t in great shape, but I borrow it whenever circumstances allow. It takes me to meetings, on errands, and through excursions with my darling nephew. It\u2019s a rare moment that doesn\u2019t see me begging to get behind the wheel, even if I\u2019m only going to be driving for ten minutes.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Last year, I was a scared kitten. It was a few hours before Rosh HaShana and I had to merge onto the interstate for the first time. The driving instructor, a comedic sort, told me I should pray for a sweet new year. I just wanted to survive the freeway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tova Schreiber: I\u2019m sitting at my desk, waiting for students to arrive and thinking about cars. Waking up at 6:00 on a Sunday morning is rarely fun, but I truly love what I do for a living. My fingers are stained from last night\u2019s dye job, and they clutch a tall Styrofoam cup of hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}