{"id":56,"date":"2002-11-22T05:16:18","date_gmt":"2002-11-22T05:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesots.com\/wordpress\/?p=0"},"modified":"2013-01-19T23:53:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T23:53:43","slug":"matatu-driving-in-ten-easy-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/56","title":{"rendered":"Matatu Driving in Ten Easy Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Buy a matatu (a small minibus – usually a Toyota Hiace). Preferably
    \nan old one which produces copious amounts of black exhaust. Don’t bother
    \nwith insurance.<\/li>\n
  2. Paint it garish colours and stick a random phrase in the back window
    \n(try one of these: ‘No Fear’, ‘God is Invincible’, ‘Arsenal’, ‘Fast as
    \nfire’, ‘Waiting for the end’). Install a multi-tone horn.<\/li>\n
  3. Have a drink.<\/li>\n
  4. When you see a passenger, stop immediately. Don’t check if anyone is
    \nbehind you. If possible, try to stop across the end of another road,
    \nhalfway round a roundabout or in the middle lane of three lanes of
    \ntraffic (extra points if you can block two lanes at once).<\/li>\n
  5. If you can see any other potential passengers, get your tout to try
    \nand persuade them to get in the matatu too. Keep filling the vehicle
    \nwith more people until you can’t fit any more in.<\/li>\n
  6. Fit some more in. The tout can hang out the side.<\/li>\n
  7. Pull out into moving traffic. Don’t check if anyone is passing
    \nyou.<\/li>\n
  8. Try not to obey any of the rules of the road. Drive as fast as
    \npossible. Overtake traffic jams and cut in at the front. Approach a
    \nroundabout in the right hand lane and turn left. Stop halfway along a slip
    \nroad.<\/li>\n
  9. Crash the matatu. Try to crash it where it will cause the most
    \nobstruction to traffic. If completely destroyed, return to step 1.<\/li>\n
  10. If engine still works, hammer out the dents and return to step 2.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Buy a matatu (a small minibus – usually a Toyota Hiace). Preferably an old one which produces copious amounts of black exhaust. Don’t bother with insurance. Paint it garish colours and stick a random phrase in the back window (try one of these: ‘No Fear’, ‘God is Invincible’, ‘Arsenal’, ‘Fast as fire’, ‘Waiting for the …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}