{"id":1601,"date":"2006-07-23T23:07:04","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T06:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/07\/23\/things-i-learned-today\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:43:14","slug":"things-i-learned-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/07\/23\/things-i-learned-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Learned Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>That in California, your license can be revoked if you get 4 points in 12 months, 6 points in 24 months, or 8 points in 36 months.<\/li>\n<li>That usually you get one point each ticket.<\/li>\n<li>That many people are gallingly cavalier about speeding and treat driving school as a necessary evil. (One class participant got a ticket for driving 140 mph, though most were driving 30-40 miles over the whatever the limit was, in which case it was anywhere from 50-90 mph).\n<\/li>\n<li>That I was a rarity in the class, since I&#8217;ve been driving 23 years and only this year have gotten a ticket.\n<\/li>\n<li>That a DUI conviction now stays on your record for ten years.<\/li>\n<li>That it is as dangerous to drive drowsy as it is to drive drunk.\n<\/li>\n<li>That a train always has the right of way (and that only one-third of railroad intersections have gates and flashing lights).\n<\/li>\n<li>That we drive faster in fog because we have no visual references and usually don&#8217;t dare check the speedometer, which of course is highly dangerous.<\/li>\n<li>That most driving fatalities are caused by one (or more) of these three factors: speeding, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or not wearing a seatbelt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yep, I spent my day (8.5 hours) on an uncomfortable chair in a bland conference room (pretentiously called the Consulate Room) listening to the instructor&#8217;s painfully lame jokes and watching an occasionally interesting video. The last thing I learned:<\/p>\n<p>I hope never to have to do this again.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. It was <strike>102<\/strike> 104 degrees!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That in California, your license can be revoked if you get 4 points in 12 months, 6 points in 24 months, or 8 points in 36 months. That usually you get one point each ticket. That many people are gallingly cavalier about speeding and treat driving school as a necessary evil. (One class participant got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11094,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/11094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}