{"id":2737,"date":"2009-01-15T19:35:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T19:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2009-01-18T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T18:22:28","slug":"job-best-job-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/15\/job-best-job-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Job:  Best job in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au\/smocs05\/whitmap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p>JetWit is not making this job listing up.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Ministry of Tourism is willing to pay someone $100,000 to spend 6 months relaxing and enjoying some island in the Pacific and blogging about it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the article from the NYTimes\/Associated Press:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/15\/world\/asia\/15australia.html?emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/15\/world\/asia\/15australia.html?emc=eta1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the job listing website:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/islandreefjob.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/islandreefjob.com\/<\/a> For those interested, deadline is Feb. 22 and requires submission of a 60-second video among other things.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds too good to be true, so my guess is that the $100G pays for itself via the publicity this generates for the island as a tourist destination.<\/p>\n<p>If any JET alums out there apply for it, let me know or post a comment so we can hear about the process (and perhaps eventually the job itself!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JetWit is not making this job listing up. The Australian Ministry of Tourism is willing to pay someone $100,000 to spend 6 months relaxing and enjoying some island in the Pacific and blogging about it. Here&#8217;s the article from the NYTimes\/Associated Press:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/15\/world\/asia\/15australia.html?emc=eta1 Here&#8217;s the job listing website:\u00a0 http:\/\/islandreefjob.com\/ For those interested, deadline is Feb. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[7,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-humor","category-jobs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-I9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}