{"id":1182,"date":"2005-11-10T17:23:42","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T00:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2005-11-10T17:23:42","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T00:23:42","slug":"gotta-love-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Gotta Love Bureaucracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I presented all my paperwork for my Montana license 10 days ago (2nd shot since we&#8217;d driven to Cut Bank a couple days before to try) and the examiner (who does her job a little too gleefully) told me I&#8217;d have to take all the Montana tests because I didn&#8217;t have the hard copy of my Minnesota license.  (Thank you Minnesota for refusing to send licenses out of state and for being so bleeping slow in sending ID documents.)  So&#8230; I took the written test and failed it.  (I&#8217;m sorry &#8212; there were no laws about why you shouldn&#8217;t hit cattle in the road in Minnesota or Ohio where I previously had passed tests.)  And lo, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth and whining on my part because after having my license for a month, I suddenly had no license again.  When you live 25 miles in between two towns, this is a really sucky thing.<\/p>\n<p>We drove to Cut Bank today and after studying last night, I took the written test and passed.  I then took the road test and passed by the skin of my teeth.  (As I said, the examiner does her job a little too gleefully and none of the testers in Minnesota or Ohio were that detail-oriented.)  So&#8230; I FINALLY HAVE A REAL BONAFIDE DRIVER&#8217;S LICENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>On the way home, we stopped by the post office to get the mail and there was a letter from the DPS in Minnesota.  Apparently, they rejected my license application because I had a MN state ID card (which I found this morning while cleaning my purse) and you can&#8217;t have both the card and the license.  So&#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t have had the MN license to begin with and I&#8217;m probably just going to send my ID card to St. Paul and tell them to use it for target practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I presented all my paperwork for my Montana license 10 days ago (2nd shot since we&#8217;d driven to Cut Bank a couple days before to try) and the examiner (who does her job a little too gleefully) told me I&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-j4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}