{"id":8295,"date":"2012-02-22T00:50:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2012-02-22T00:50:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:50:09","slug":"driving-test-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8295","title":{"rendered":"Driving Test Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first freedom of information (FOI) story of the year, but <a title=\"ChronicleLive - Umpteen Goes to Pass Test\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/north-east-news\/evening-chronicle-news\/2012\/02\/20\/tyneside-woman-failed-driving-theory-test-48-times-72703-30366922\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> ChronicleLive<\/a> (a <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/145;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; float: left;\" title=\"Wad of money\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wad.jpg\" alt=\"Wad of money\" width=\"180\" height=\"145\" align=\"left\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>Newcastle news site) says that a 27-year old woman from the area passed her Theory Test on the <strong>49th attempt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Just for the record, that means she shelled out \u00a31,519 just on the Theory Test!<\/p>\n<p>The article also says a 29-year old Sunderland man took 16 tries, and two teenagers from Morpeth took 13 attempts.<\/p>\n<p>When it came to the Practical Test, a 40-year old Sunderland woman took 20 attempts (the tests alone would have cost her \u00a31,240), narrowly beating a 32-year old Hexham woman (17 goes) and a 32-year old Elswick woman (16 goes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first freedom of information (FOI) story of the year, but ChronicleLive (a Newcastle news site) says that a 27-year old woman from the area passed her Theory Test on the 49th attempt. Just for the record, that means she shelled out \u00a31,519 just on the Theory Test! The article also says a [&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":[80,81,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-driving-test-related","category-news"],"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\/8295","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=8295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}