{"id":17286,"date":"2015-04-09T00:43:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T23:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17286"},"modified":"2015-04-09T00:43:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T23:43:22","slug":"test-pass-742015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17286","title":{"rendered":"Test Pass: 7\/4\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 84px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 84\/84;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Tick\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tick_22.gif\" alt=\"Tick\" width=\"84\" height=\"84\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>Well done Sarah, who passed yesterday with 10 driver faults. It was her second test with me, but her eighth attempt overall!<\/p>\n<p>Sarah\u2019s biggest problem has been her nerves &#8211; she had been prescribed beta blockers and I made sure she took them for her test. She can drive, but she easily gets distracted by making things too complicated or overthinking them (as we walked into the test centre she asked which way she should drive to go out of the car park &#8211; I just said not to drive through a wall, because there was only one way in or out, and we\u2019d just used it). On both her tests, I got texts late the previous evening asking things that weren\u2019t important.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I think the reason she hadn\u2019t passed previously is that she\u2019d had instructors who merely pandered to her nerves instead of trying to deal with them. I focused on the fact that she could drive, and built her confidence up from there.<\/p>\n<p>Another milestone is that this was the first time I have had anyone in floods of tears &#8211; and I mean hard tears &#8211; because they passed. It meant that much to her. And she admitted that the possibility of passing, this time or in any future test, had not occurred to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well done Sarah, who passed yesterday with 10 driver faults. It was her second test with me, but her eighth attempt overall! Sarah\u2019s biggest problem has been her nerves &#8211; she had been prescribed beta blockers and I made sure she took them for her test. She can drive, but she easily gets distracted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving-test-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}