{"id":33263,"date":"2026-04-07T05:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/07\/jerry-zezima-opinion-i-got-hired-as-a-journalist-in-1976-by-telling-jokes-on-the-test-ctpost\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:08:35","slug":"jerry-zezima-opinion-i-got-hired-as-a-journalist-in-1976-by-telling-jokes-on-the-test-ctpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/07\/jerry-zezima-opinion-i-got-hired-as-a-journalist-in-1976-by-telling-jokes-on-the-test-ctpost\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Zezima (opinion): I got hired as a journalist in 1976 by telling jokes on the test &#8211; CTPost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijgFBVV95cUxPTy1RRng0U2c3T2FqTFItd2Z3YjFQcmtCTUNDZHU5WXc0Z3dGRHZmS2s4TEkxWmFodUd2NEpkTWVyVFh6N25DWGRvT3pjQ196b2o2dm1HN2NUNlBDb2pWaDVSWVdYM1F4NUJsSFBheU9TeDRPWFlNZkRuU2pRcW5HV1NDME96TThCUWRQU2NB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry Zezima (opinion): I got hired as a journalist in 1976 by telling jokes on the test<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">CTPost<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Zezima (opinion): I got hired as a journalist in 1976 by telling jokes on the test&nbsp;&nbsp;CTPost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}