{"id":529,"date":"2012-01-29T13:02:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T21:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=529"},"modified":"2012-01-29T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T22:00:02","slug":"so-much-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"So Much for That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had what I thought was a better-than-average job prospect, but at this stage it&#8217;s obvious it is not going to materialize, since the appointed time for a response has passed with no word whatsoever from the employer.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just as well, because it would have required relocating at short notice to a different part of the metro area. It wasn&#8217;t a particularly bad part of it, but still: if I must relocate at short notice, I&#8217;d rather it be to someplace in Cascadia that does not have one of the key glaring downsides that each of the major metropolitan areas here have. In other words, I&#8217;d rather get something a little extra for the pain and bother of moving.<\/p>\n<p>If it wasn&#8217;t for those downsides (Portland: allergen levels and general poor air quality, Seattle: poorly-planned growth that has a significant negative impact on quality of life, Vancouver, BC: onerous immigration hassles), I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily have an objection to living in a larger city. It&#8217;s just that each of the three &#8220;major city&#8221; options in the Pacific Northwest happen to have a serious downside to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had what I thought was a better-than-average job prospect, but at this stage it&#8217;s obvious it is not going to materialize, since the appointed time for a response has passed with no word whatsoever from the employer. Maybe it&#8217;s just as well, because it would have required relocating at short notice to a different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}