{"id":7,"date":"2002-04-24T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2002-04-23T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/7"},"modified":"2002-04-24T01:00:39","modified_gmt":"2002-04-23T20:00:39","slug":"oh-hey-i-applied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/7","title":{"rendered":"Oh hey, I applied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh hey, I applied for a job!  Well, it&#8217;s not really a job&#8230; it&#8217;s a job LOBSTER!  (dang dang dang dung dung ding dung ding ding).<\/p>\n<p>Whoops, sorry, I just channeled the B-52s.  Anyway, I applied for a job at <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.google.com\">answers.google.com<\/a>, which is a Google service that is for-pay.  People who need answers to really specific questions (like <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.google.com\/answers\/main?cmd=threadview&#038;id=3268\"> &#8220;what percent of the human population has one green eye and one blue eye?&#8221;<\/a>, a $7 question, w00t!) offer anywhere from $4 to $50 for someone who&#8217;s Google-approved to answer it, and the researcher gets 75% of the proceeds.  First I had to write an essay on why I wanted to become a researcher, and now I have to research and answer 5 test questions to Google&#8217;s satisfaction in order to become One with the Search Engine.<\/p>\n<p>Some hard drive in one of my computers is making a nasty clunking noise.  This can mean nothing good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh hey, I applied for a job! Well, it&#8217;s not really a job&#8230; it&#8217;s a job LOBSTER! (dang dang dang dung dung ding dung ding ding). Whoops, sorry, I just channeled the B-52s. Anyway, I applied for a job at answers.google.com, which is a Google service that is for-pay. People who need answers to really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}