{"id":50094,"date":"2022-01-11T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50094"},"modified":"2022-01-11T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:50:08","slug":"temp-gig-has-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50094","title":{"rendered":"Temp gig has ended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/newspapers_ss_img_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39041\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/newspapers_ss_img_-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/newspapers_ss_img_-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/newspapers_ss_img_-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/newspapers_ss_img_-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/newspapers_ss_img_.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Given that I made a fairly big deal out of a temporary job assignment that came to me a few weeks ago, I feel compelled to tell you that the assignment has concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Morning News needed a temporary editorial writer to join the staff. The editor of the opinion pages got in touch with me and made me an offer I couldn\u2019t refuse. He told me up front it was a temporary gig. Hey, no sweat, I told him. I am 72 years old and had a nice career as an opinion writer and editor. I said I was game for the assignment.<\/p>\n<p>It ended the other day.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say it was an honor and a thrill to lend a hand for a brief period of time to the staff of a major daily newspaper. I wish them well as they continue on. As for my wife and me, our trek will take us forward, too.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, if the need ever arises for me to submit a resume to someone, I can add \u201ceditorial writer for the Dallas Morning News\u201d to the list of stops along my journey.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that I made a fairly big deal out of a temporary job assignment that came to me a few weeks ago, I feel compelled to tell you that the assignment has concluded. The Dallas Morning News needed a temporary editorial writer to join the staff. The editor of the opinion pages got in touch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50094\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Temp gig has ended<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1243,3737],"class_list":["post-50094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-dallas-morning-news","tag-print-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50095,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50094\/revisions\/50095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}