{"id":3441,"date":"2009-08-28T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T22:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2009-08-28T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T22:25:09","slug":"guess-what-theyre-paying-me-to-hike-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2009\/08\/28\/guess-what-theyre-paying-me-to-hike-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess what, they&#8217;re paying me to hike &#8212; sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have a solid two months of free-lance work lined up, which settles the &#8220;Tom needs to have a job before he starts blogging regularly again&#8221; issue. With any luck those two months can turn into a permanent gig, or as permanent as it gets these days. <\/p>\n<p>Without naming names I can say the gigs are with people who contacted me primarily because of what they&#8217;ve read at Two-Heel Drive (I&#8217;d have thought the site proved only that I was beyond-the-pale geeky, but apparently I was inadvertently advertising marketable skills. Who knew?)<\/p>\n<p>A fellow hiking blogger who also calls Carolina home has suggested a get-together; that also would give me an excuse to commit some blogging. <\/p>\n<p>So, as the old guy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail said: I&#8217;m not dead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have a solid two months of free-lance work lined up, which settles the &#8220;Tom needs to have a job before he starts blogging regularly again&#8221; issue. With any luck those two months can turn into a permanent gig,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2009\/08\/28\/guess-what-theyre-paying-me-to-hike-sort-of\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3442,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}