{"id":190761,"date":"2009-10-28T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/28\/what-an-unbelievably-lame-meat-market\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T19:38:00","slug":"what-an-unbelievably-lame-meat-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/28\/what-an-unbelievably-lame-meat-market\/","title":{"rendered":"What an Unbelievably Lame Meat Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a job fair today down in Rockville, MD.<\/p>\n<p>I have <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">never<\/span> gotten a lead from going to a job fair, and I don&#8217;t expect one now, but I wanted to get some practice in &#8220;meet and greet&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I did get some schwag<sup>*<\/sup>, a bottle opener and a 1 liter drinking bottle, but I don&#8217;t expect anything else.<\/p>\n<p>45 minutes talking with a dozen or so firms and handing out resumes, and an hour there and back&#8230;Time that I will never get back.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Some people claim that the term is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">swag<\/span>, and that schwag is reserved for skanky and low quality weed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a job fair today down in Rockville, MD. I have never gotten a lead from going to a job fair, and I don&#8217;t expect one now, but I wanted to get some practice in &#8220;meet and greet&#8221;. I did get some schwag*, a bottle opener and a 1 liter drinking bottle, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}