{"id":2583,"date":"2019-06-22T13:57:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelicanbookgroup.com\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:15:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:15:45","slug":"meet-kaitlyn-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/meet-kaitlyn-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Kaitlyn Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tMeet the Heroine, <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Kaitlyn <\/span><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Driver, <\/span>from Turbocharged by <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: &quot;Amazon Ember&quot;,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.255; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Jessie Gussman<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lucida Grande,Tahoma,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: rgb(243, 247, 251);\">\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t\t<span><strong>Tell us your name and a little bit about yourself<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span style=\"background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Kaitlyn <\/span><span style=\"background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Driver. <\/span><span>I<\/span><span> work for my dad in his trucking company. In my spare time I&#39;ve put together a pulling rig and I plan to win the championship this year. My older brother, Kyle, won the year before he died. I want to show my dad that I can do it too.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t\t<span><strong>Where do you live, and why do you choose to live there?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Transmission, PA. That&#39;s where my dad&#39;s trucking company is located.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color: rgb(243, 247, 251);\">\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t\t<span><strong>What is a quirk of your personality that people don&#39;t know?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span>I act tough, but it&#39;s mostly a cover for all the insecurities I keep hidden.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t\t<span><strong>Who chronicled your story, and why do you think she picked you?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Jessie Gussman wrote about me, and I think she did it because she sees a lot of people like me around &#8211; who are hurting on the inside and acting tough to cover it &#8211; and she wanted to show the world that things aren&#39;t always what they seem.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color: rgb(243, 247, 251);\">\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t\t<span><strong>What obstacles did you overcome in order to reach your happily-ever-after?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span>My objects were psychological, having to do with my brother&#39;s death and how I blamed myself, how I felt my dad didn&#39;t love me and how I felt I needed to be hard so people couldn&#39;t hurt me.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t\t<span><strong>Tell us about your knight in shining armour. What makes him so special?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span>The Bible says that marriage relationship between a man and a woman is a picture of the relationship between Christ and the Church. Nate is special because he was able to show me this, not with words &#8211; I wouldn&#39;t have listened &#8211; but by his actions.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color: rgb(243, 247, 251);\">\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t\t<span><strong>The first time you saw your special person, what did you think? Was it love at first sight or did he have to grow on you?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Definitely not love at first sight. Or second. Or third. Ha. We had to be stuck in the same garage for days before my blind eyes were opened.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAvailable today on Amazon and other online retailers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"1080\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_k4vOcRaiKFkzma&#038;asin=B07S2XLZ5G&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Heroine, Kaitlyn Driver, from Turbocharged by Jessie Gussman Tell us your name and a little bit about yourself Kaitlyn Driver. I work for my dad in his trucking company. In my spare time I&#39;ve put together a pulling rig and I plan to win the championship this year. My older brother, Kyle, won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[506],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews-spotlights","tag-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}