{"id":2145,"date":"2013-09-03T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningnewsinverse.com\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2014-03-14T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T17:09:00","slug":"jauntaroo-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/?p=2145","title":{"rendered":"Jauntaroo Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">by Bob Sparrow<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Januntaroo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2146 alignleft\" alt=\"Januntaroo\" src=\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Januntaroo-300x154.png\" width=\"270\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Januntaroo-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Januntaroo.png 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0No, <strong>Jauntaroo<\/strong> <strong>Who<\/strong> is not the bon vivant brother of Cindy Lou Who, the wee tot in <strong><i>The Grinch That Stole Christmas<\/i><\/strong>, who espied the <strong>Grinch<\/strong> on Christmas Eve stuffing the family <strong>Christmas<\/strong> tree up the chimney.\u00a0 Rather it is a relatively new travel agency that has caught my eye and the eyes of several thousand other people recently with a unique employment opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>They are offering a $100,000 salary to a person who will travel to some 50 destinations during the course of 2014, mingling with various cultures, helping those less fortunate and using social media to keep the rest of the world abreast of all the adventures that ensue.<\/p>\n<p>How do I know about this?\u00a0 I was working in my office, which is a loft in our bedroom while my wife, Linda was getting ready for work in the bathroom, watching the <i>Today <\/i>show, where Jauntaroo was getting air time from <strong>Al Roker<\/strong> and <strong>Mel B<\/strong> about their <strong>\u2018Best Job Around the World\u2019<\/strong> employment offer.\u00a0 Linda called my attention to the ad and said, \u201cThis job has your name all over it!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 My uneasiness over my wife\u2019s enthusiasm for me applying for a job that would put me on the road through most of 2014 should I win, was tempered by my excitement over the prospects of doing just that.<\/p>\n<p>So, yes of course I\u2019m applying!\u00a0 I am currently in the process of filling out the application, part of which requires a one-minute video on why I should be Jauntaroo\u2019s first <strong>Chief World Explorer<\/strong>.\u00a0 That video is in the making as I write this and should be \u2018in the can\u2019 (that\u2019s Hollywood talk for finished, not in the garbage can) by September 6<sup>th<\/sup>, as the deadline for applications is September 15<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Once the video is posted, I will be bugging every person I know to go on line and \u2018Like\u2019 it \u2013 EVERYDAY, as you can \u2018vote\u2019 every 24 hours according to the Jauntaroo\u00a0 rules.\u00a0 As part of the \u2018interview\u2019 process, Jauntaroo is looking to see how much social media attention job candidates can generate \u2013 so I\u2019ll need help from all of you to show these young wiper-snappers that there is still plenty of tread left on these tires.<\/p>\n<p>If you like travel, their website at<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jauntaroo.com\">jauntaroo.com<\/a> <\/strong>has some interesting features, like their unique <strong>\u2018Vacation Finder\u2019<\/strong>, <strong>\u2018Travel With A Cause\u2019<\/strong> and their daily <strong>\u2018Travel Tip\u2019<\/strong>.\u00a0 They take a very personal approach to matching travelers with the right destinations.\u00a0 You can also click on \u00a0\u2018THE CANDIDATES\u2019 and you\u2019ll be able to see all the videos that have been submitted thus far for the \u2018dream job\u2019. Well, you won\u2019t want to see ALL 1,000+ videos, but hopefully you\u2019ll see one, mine.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m apologizing in advance for the \u2018reminders\u2019 to vote that I\u2019ll be sending out to all of you and asking you to send them on to all your contacts.\u00a0 The video is short and you&#8217;ll hopefully be entertained . . . for 60 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bob Sparrow \u00a0 \u00a0No, Jauntaroo Who is not the bon vivant brother of Cindy Lou Who, the wee tot in The Grinch That Stole Christmas, who espied the Grinch on Christmas Eve stuffing the family Christmas tree up the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/?p=2145\">read more<span class=\"meta-nav\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[813],"tags":[934,1147,1150,1144,1146,1145,1149,1148],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-al-roker","tag-best-job-around-the-world","tag-chief-world-explorer","tag-jautaroo","tag-mel-b","tag-the-grinch-that-stole-christmas","tag-travel-with-a-cause","tag-vacation-finder"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Januntaroo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aN0-yB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}