{"id":4,"date":"2021-10-22T04:47:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T04:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/stickshift\/?p=4"},"modified":"2021-10-22T04:47:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T04:47:23","slug":"driving-a-stick-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/stickshift\/2021\/10\/22\/driving-a-stick-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving a stick shift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How many of you know how to drive a manual car before, or have you tried to drive one. It is very likely that you had a bad experience with it if you did, because it gets pretty frustrating when your car kept dying from releasing the clutch too quick. Driving a manual car is for sure on a different level of difficulty than driving an automatic car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can proudly say that I learned how to drive with a manual car, but I have to admit it was super stressful. I got a hang of it after a while, and I thought driving a stick shift isn&#8217;t too bad until I tried to start up the car on a hill. Starting up a manual car on a hill can be a nightmare, because  the car is much easier to stall when rolling backward. Imagine waiting for a red light on a hill with cars right behind you, that&#8217;s a lot of pressure knowing that you might stall the car, roll back and hit them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides the horrible experience from learning how to drive it, I really enjoy the fun it brings to me, even though it can give you a big headache when driving in heavy traffic or places with a lot of stop signs and red lights. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of you know how to drive a manual car before, or have you tried to drive one. It is very likely that you had a bad experience with it if you did, because it gets pretty frustrating when your car kept dying from releasing the clutch too quick. Driving a manual car is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/stickshift\/2021\/10\/22\/driving-a-stick-shift\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Driving a stick shift<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11720,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/stickshift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/stickshift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/stickshift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/stickshift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/stickshift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/stickshift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/stickshift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/stickshift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/stickshift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/stickshift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}