{"id":39,"date":"2010-11-13T14:43:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T14:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kanglu.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/13\/learning-to-drive-a-stick"},"modified":"2010-11-13T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T14:43:26","slug":"learning-to-drive-a-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2010\/11\/13\/learning-to-drive-a-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to drive a stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never got around to this when I first learned how to drive. Recently I had to plan a trip to the UK and thought I may end up with a manual car from the car rental place, so I thought I better learn how to drive one. I found this place called shifters from Toronto ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shifters.ca\/introlevel.htm\">http:\/\/www.shifters.ca\/introlevel.htm<\/a> ). They provide an introductory program to the stick.<\/p>\n<p>My first thought was how hard can it be. Change gears based on speed and RPM, what&rsquo;s the catch? After an hour session, I should be a pro. Well I&rsquo;m a bit off base. It took 5 sessions for me to be comfortable with everything, the traffic, the hills, the highway, the downshifting, etc. In the end I was able to shift smoothly without the typical jerky feeling when I get in a manual with someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it does feel like it is more work than I care for. Luckily, Hertz had an automatic available in the UK. I think driving on the right side of the car and on the left side of the road will be distracting enough, so fingers crossed! Europe here we come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never got around to this when I first learned how to drive. Recently I had to plan a trip to the UK and thought I may end up with a manual car from the car rental place, so I thought I better learn how to drive one. I found this place called shifters from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2010\/11\/13\/learning-to-drive-a-stick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learning to drive a stick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-justmigrated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}