{"id":5077,"date":"2011-02-21T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T09:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2011-02-21T09:58:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T09:58:42","slug":"driving-tests-in-english-only-american-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5077","title":{"rendered":"Driving Tests In English Only (American Tale)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <span style=\"color: #800000\">story from the Southeast Missourian&#160;(USA). State legislators are supporting a Missouri House bill whereby driving tests could only be conducted in English.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Steven Tilley, R-Perryville said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">If there&#8217;s a flashing sign that says &#8216;merge left,&#8217; I want somebody who can read that sign&#8230; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Missouri currently conducts the test in 11 languages, but the candidate can pay for and supply their own interpreter (from an approved list)&#160;if they speak a language that isn&#8217;t covered.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you read the story and form your own opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine someone raising something like that in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">EDIT 23\/2\/2011:  <\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">CBS St Louis reports<span style=\"color: #800000\"> that the bill mentioned above is going to be debated in the  <strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">House. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">EDIT 5\/3\/2011:  <\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">WLTZ 38 News reports  that a lawsuit filed in Alabama claiming that multiple-language driving tests were &#8220;unconstituional&#8221; has been rejected by the Alabama Supreme Court. No reason was given. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting story from the Southeast Missourian&#160;(USA). State legislators are supporting a Missouri House bill whereby driving tests could only be conducted in English. House Speaker Steven Tilley, R-Perryville said: If there&#8217;s a flashing sign that says &#8216;merge left,&#8217; I want somebody who can read that sign&#8230; Missouri currently conducts the test in 11 languages, [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","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\/5077","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=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}