{"id":473,"date":"2009-10-09T22:27:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2009-10-09T22:27:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:27:42","slug":"a-fly-in-the-ointment-of-exsitence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/2009\/10\/09\/a-fly-in-the-ointment-of-exsitence\/","title":{"rendered":"a fly in the ointment of existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Am I mearly a fly in the ointment of existence? I have had a couple of recent knock backs that have rocked me a bit.That plus a dose of flu and and a new level of insight have left me wondering what the best course of action is? I have been looking at jobs outside the music arena and I have applied for around 30 in about 2 weeks. So far out of 30 the score is 1 interview, I canceled interview and 2 no thank you very much. I understand that at present it takes about 200 applications to get a job, so I guess I need to pull my finger out a bit really. I like to cling to the possibly misguided notion that I do have some saleable skills but of course these may simply be delusional episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I mearly a fly in the ointment of existence? I have had a couple of recent knock backs that have rocked me a bit.That plus a dose of flu and and a new level of insight have left me wondering what the best course of action is? I have been looking at jobs outside &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/2009\/10\/09\/a-fly-in-the-ointment-of-exsitence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a fly in the ointment of existence&#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":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}