{"id":4566,"date":"2011-01-27T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T04:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=4566"},"modified":"2011-01-27T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T04:27:19","slug":"being-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/01\/27\/being-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a professional at something implies excellence and knowing how to do the job correctly. A taxi driver&#8217;s job is to drive, so they are supposed to know how to drive. Unfortunately this train of though is too idealistic I guess. Driving toward Kapahulu Ave this afternoon, taxi minivan speeds along side and squeezes in on freeway at last minute to get off at the Kapahulu off. On Kapahulu I&#8217;m two cars behind, a Lexus SUV is between us. In right lane is a yellow school bus\/van stopped, red lights flashing, stop sign folded out on left side of van, also with red lights flashing, and sign on rear of van clearly proclaiming &#8220;Unlawful to pass when red lights are flashing&#8221;. Apparently english reading comprehension is also\u00c2\u00a0not a required skill of taxi drivers. The taxi minivan zooms past the school bus, as does the Lexus. I stop, the bus turns off its signals and I catch up with the idiots at the next light. Taxi plate was BBJ 641, control ID#on dome light 86364, bumper decal T2862, unfortunatley company name only on front of dome light I couldn&#8217;t identify.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/01\/27\/being-pro\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"asides-permalink\" title=\"Permanent Link to Being Pro\">(0)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a professional at something implies excellence and knowing how to do the job correctly. A taxi driver&#8217;s job is to drive, so they are supposed to know how to drive. Unfortunately this train of though is too idealistic I guess. Driving toward Kapahulu Ave this afternoon, taxi minivan speeds along side and squeezes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-1bE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}