{"id":112,"date":"2002-11-20T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-20T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2002\/11\/20\/palo-alto-california-15\/"},"modified":"2002-11-20T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-20T19:30:00","slug":"palo-alto-california-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2002\/11\/20\/palo-alto-california-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this point it looks like I didn&#8217;t get the job in LA &#8212; they haven&#8217;t called, and they initially said they&#8217;d get back to me by Monday (today is Wednesday).  It&#8217;s a bit of a surprise since they needed a very specific set of skills, but I guess it&#8217;s a tough market &#8212; yesterday eBay had a job fair to fill 183 positions, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcbs.com\/pages\/kcbs\/news\/news_story.nsp?story_id=34524734&amp;ID=kcbs&amp;scategory=Computers\">six thousand people showed up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since I wasn&#8217;t eager to get back to work I may just bum around for a bit longer.  In the technology world that&#8217;s sort of like career suicide since after six months your skills get stale, but cubicles and hundred hour weeks were never really the thing for me anyhow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this point it looks like I didn&#8217;t get the job in LA &#8212; they haven&#8217;t called, and they initially said they&#8217;d get back to me by Monday (today is Wednesday). It&#8217;s a bit of a surprise since they needed a very specific set of skills, but I guess it&#8217;s a tough market &#8212; yesterday &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2002\/11\/20\/palo-alto-california-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Palo Alto, California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}