{"id":1701,"date":"2010-02-12T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T23:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:22:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:22:05","slug":"extra-credit-for-crocheted-leotards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=1701","title":{"rendered":"Extra credit for crocheted leotards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I have to wear a suit to my interview? Hell, why does anybody have to wear suits? Let&#8217;s analyze what the suit is saying to the interviewer. It says, <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard I should wear a suit.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>AND<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had money for a suit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OR <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a suit that fits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having money is not something someone flaunts at a job interview. Doesn&#8217;t having money mean you want the job less? You should be dressed in a way that says you want the job and not to say, &#8221; I am a tool of cultural aesthetic who is going to use this garment as a crutch to increase my apparent respectability as I sit here uncomfortably and talk to you but fidget whenever you&#8217;re not looking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We can wear hand-knit sweaters to business functions. They say so much more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have the tenacity, dedication and fine motor skills to remain at a task until completion. My devotion to this sweater&#8217;s creation is a direct reflection of my desire to join your organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m nice enough to Grandma that she knitted this for me. How can you reject a person who&#8217;s that nice to his grandmother? You can safely assume my social support is sufficient that a termination-induced homicidal breakdown is unlikely.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I have to wear a suit to my interview? Hell, why does anybody have to wear suits? Let&#8217;s analyze what the suit is saying to the interviewer. It says, &#8220;I heard I should wear a suit.&#8221; AND &#8220;I had money for a suit.&#8221; OR &#8220;I have a suit that fits.&#8221; Having money is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3584,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/3584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}