{"id":1673,"date":"2008-07-23T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/dictionaries-save-cover-letters\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T14:20:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T19:20:34","slug":"dictionaries-save-cover-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/dictionaries-save-cover-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Dictionaries Save Cover Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.killianadvertising.com\/NL29\/\">Killian&#8217;s Cover Letters from Hell<\/a> are out again with some highly entertaining fare.\u00a0 This one does it for me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m looking for work because even though my company was profitable last year, this year they are expecting a large defecate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killian&#8217;s Cover Letters from Hell are out again with some highly entertaining fare.\u00a0 This one does it for me: I\u2019m looking for work because even though my company was profitable last year, this year they are expecting a large defecate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[119,890,889],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-resumes","tag-anecdote","tag-cover-letter-error","tag-hiring-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-qZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1175,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/the-automatic-cover-letter\/","url_meta":{"origin":1673,"position":0},"title":"The Automatic Cover Letter","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"September 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From my junk mail: Stop writing cover letters the hard way. _____________ helps you quickly and easily crank out a killer cover letter that is guaranteed-to keep your phone ringing. 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