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I<\/span>‘ve got an interview this afternoon in downtown Seattle.<\/p>\n

The job is scriptwriting for GPS-tagged video for cross-country luxury tour buses.<\/p>\n

Crazy job. Fair pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I‘ve got an interview this afternoon in downtown Seattle. The job is scriptwriting for GPS-tagged video for cross-country luxury tour buses. Crazy job. Fair pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moments-in-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3720,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/pride\/","url_meta":{"origin":53,"position":0},"title":"Pride","author":"Thom","date":"07 June 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In the Office of Readings for the last little bit, we've been reading the Book of Job. 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