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Another nicely amusing post at Defective Yeti on “secrets” of particular jobs<\/a>, in this case being a clown for birthday parties, being a board game developer, and being a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia.<\/p>\n

You can input your own tricks of the trade, too, for a valuable prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another nicely amusing post at Defective Yeti on “secrets” of particular jobs, in this case being a clown for birthday parties, being a board game developer, and being a Peace…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-jollies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9798,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/31\/heres_what_i_think_about.html","url_meta":{"origin":6531,"position":0},"title":"Here’s What I Think About Politics","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 31-Oct-06 6:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Defective Yeti is usually a great site to go to for the amusing anecdote, joke, bon mot, game review, or Bad Review Revue. 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