{"id":2146,"date":"2011-09-27T06:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2011-09-27T06:12:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T21:12:05","slug":"a-visit-to-the-dmv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=2146","title":{"rendered":"A Visit To The DMV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning I went off to get my Japanese driver’s license renewed. Here is the process. <\/p>\n

    \n1. Go to the DMV renewal center. It is actually in a separate building from the DMV. I screwed this one up right off the bat. <\/ol>\n
      \n2. At the front desk hand over your current license. They download your info from the IC chip and then print out a form to fill out. <\/ol>\n
        \n3. Fill in the form with your updated information. In my case it was already up to date, so not much to do here. P.S. No English forms available.<\/ol>\n
          \n4. Go wait in line number 2 to pay your fee. 4600 yen. <\/ol>\n
            \n5. Go wait in line number 3 to double check your forms are correct. I missed one check box, but then I noticed that everyone else did, too. <\/ol>\n
              \n6. Go wait in line number 4 to take a vision test. Piece of cake.<\/ol>\n
                \n7. Go wait in line number 5 to triple check your forms are correct. No problem this time. <\/ol>\n
                  \n8. Go wait in line A, B, or C depending on what time they want your lecture to start. At the front of the line they take your picture. No smiling!<\/ol>\n
                    \n9. Go to a classroom and listen to a two hour lecture. Two hours because this is the first time to renew my license. If I don’t have any accidents in the next three years lecture time drops to 30 minutes. The lecture was common sense stuff, but the movie was great!<\/ol>\n

                    So that was it. I finished about 12:45, and then I went off to the office to help out with a couple of orientations for the next group of students. I did my best to scare them straight – we’ll see if it worked starting next week. <\/p>\n

                    Today I’m doing a regular set of classes in the morning, and then sneaking off to a brewery in Osaka from 12 pm. Don’t tell anybody. I’m also bringing somebody who is playing hooky from his\/her job, so I can’t give away their identity here. A full report on the brewery next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                    Yesterday morning I went off to get my Japanese driver’s license renewed. Here is the process. 1. Go to the DMV renewal center. It is actually in a separate building from the DMV. I screwed this one up right off the bat. 2. At the front desk hand over your current license. They download your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-yC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}