{"id":111770,"date":"2017-11-28T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:13:45","slug":"you-can-depend-on-automobiles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/you-can-depend-on-automobiles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"You can&#39;t depend on Automobiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BdQUKfuCDJ8\/UAZN-BgIevI\/AAAAAAAABTw\/FJX1twO_hnk\/s1600\/london.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"304\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/london-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-111771\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">At the turn of the century many of the <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">London<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> cab-drivers were not convinced by the new motorised \u2018horse-less\u2019 new-fangled contraptions:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;In his diary on <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">15<sup>th<\/sup> October 1901<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, journalist R.D. Blumenfeld recalls a conversation with a cab-driver.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">My hansom cab-driver who calls for me every morning at <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">two o\u2019clock<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> after we have sent the paper to press informed me that his brother, who is also a cabman is taking lessons in automobile driving in the hope that some day he will be able to drive a horseless cab. I told him it would be a good idea if he, too, took lessons, but he shouted through the opening at the top that he wasn\u2019t going to waste his money on such foolishness,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cThem automobiles,\u201d he said, \u201care all right as playthings, but you can\u2019t depend on \u2018em. Besides, they are dangerous, and you can\u2019t guarantee getting you\u2019re fare to the place &nbsp;he wants to reach. You\u2019ll never beat my old \u2018orse.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">I wonder if he is right.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the turn of the century many of the London cab-drivers were not convinced by the new motorised \u2018horse-less\u2019 new-fangled contraptions: &nbsp;In his diary on 15th October 1901, journalist R.D. Blumenfeld recalls a conversation with a cab-driver. My hansom cab-driver who calls for me every morning at two o\u2019clock after we have sent the paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}