{"id":618591,"date":"2009-12-30T11:40:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:business.theatlantic.com,2009:\/\/3.32774"},"modified":"2009-12-30T11:18:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:18:44","slug":"the-sting-of-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/618591","title":{"rendered":"The Sting of Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unemployment is the pits, but employment can be a pain, too. You want proof? Here’s proof. The winner of the “Best Job in the World”<\/a> competition to explore an island off the Great Barrier Reef and write a blog about it for $120,000 was unceremoniously greeted by a island native:<\/p>\n

Trouble struck paradise this week when a British man who has the
\n“Best Job in the World” as the caretaker of a tropical Australian
\nisland was stung by a potentially lethal jellyfish.<\/p>\n

Ben
\nSouthall — who won a contest to blog for six months about life on
\nAustralia’s Hamilton Island to promote tourism — wrote Tuesday that he
\nwas lucky to have survived his brush with the extremely venomous Irukandji jellyfish.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n



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Unemployment is the pits, but employment can be a pain, too. You want proof? Here’s proof. The winner of the “Best Job in the World” competition to explore an island off the Great Barrier Reef and write a blog about it for $120,000 was unceremoniously greeted by a island native: Trouble struck paradise this week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2AVh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}