{"id":6787,"date":"2011-10-03T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T16:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6787"},"modified":"2011-10-03T17:03:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T16:03:27","slug":"my-offer-to-be-a-london-ambassador-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6787","title":{"rendered":"My offer to be a London Ambassador (6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen months ago, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3206\">my first posting<\/a> about my wish to be a London Ambassador for the 2012 Olympic Games. Today I received this e-mail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Thank you for attending your recent London Ambassadors  recruitment event. The recruitment events closed on Friday 5 August,  after 195 days of interviews, and we were extremely impressed by  candidates\u2019 quality, enthusiasm and energy.<\/p>\n<p>Interest in the London Ambassadors programme has been incredibly high,  with applications far exceeding the number of roles available. With such  a positive response, we\u2019ve been unable to offer a role to everyone who  attended a recruitment event, and unfortunately you haven\u2019t been chosen  to be a London Ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate  this may be disappointing news, and that you may wish to receive  feedback on why you haven&#8217;t been successful. However, due to the large  number of candidates we saw at the recruitment events, we are unable to  provide individual feedback on interview performance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am genuinely surprised and very disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen months ago, I did my first posting about my wish to be a London Ambassador for the 2012 Olympic Games. Today I received this e-mail: &#8220;Thank you for attending your recent London Ambassadors recruitment event. The recruitment events closed on Friday 5 August, after 195 days of interviews, and we were extremely impressed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6794,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions\/6794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}