{"id":1207,"date":"2009-05-09T08:34:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T13:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2009-05-09T08:34:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T13:34:15","slug":"craigslist-translation-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/craigslist-translation-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Craigslist Translation Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/20\/how-to-use-craigslist-to-find-new-clients\/\">written before<\/a> I follow Craigslist&#8217;s Computer Gigs and Jobs sections in several cities in order to find new customers for my business. This usually entails sorting through quite a bit of crap. So many people are looking for free work under the label of &#8220;internship&#8221; and most of them would never consider offering their services for free. Many more are are just looking to collect names for their spam list. After a short while you can spot those pretty easily.<\/p>\n<p>As I said CL is just filled with this stuff and I guess sorting through it for the legitimate requests is just the price you have to pay for a &#8220;free&#8221; service. Yesterday a post made me laugh out loud. It was a translation guide for all of these requests begging for something for nothing. I wanted to pass it along for anyone who follows Craigslist or for anyone who just needs a laugh. It probably won&#8217;t last long on Craigslist so I&#8217;ve also linked to the authors site.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtondc.craigslist.org\/nva\/cpg\/1161312798.html\" target=\"_blank\">Craigslist Translation Guide on Craigslist<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.karljay.com\/forum\/view_post.php?tid=154507\" target=\"_blank\">Craigslist Translation Guide on karljay.com<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve written before I follow Craigslist&#8217;s Computer Gigs and Jobs sections in several cities in order to find new customers for my business. This usually entails sorting through quite a bit of crap. So many people are looking for free work under the label of &#8220;internship&#8221; and most of them would never consider offering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,12],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}