{"id":1248,"date":"2006-12-15T07:32:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T12:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/question-of-the-season\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T07:32:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T12:32:44","slug":"question-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/question-of-the-season","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I headed into NYC last night after work to pick up Amy after her office&#8217;s Christmas party. My company&#8217;s party is this afternoon, which&#8217;ll give me a nice break from that big-ol&#8217; directory I&#8217;m laying out.<\/p>\n<p>Our &#8220;holiday&#8221; party has had some entertainment over the years. I mean, in addition to the planned stuff, like our annual &#8220;Rodnac&#8221; rip-off of Carson&#8217;s &#8220;Carnac&#8221; routine, where we goof on various former employees. No, I&#8217;m talking about the astonishing levels of drunkenness that can only accompany an open bar at an unsuspecting restaurant.<br \/>\nIn past years, we&#8217;ve seen one attendee &#8220;fall asleep&#8221; in a bar bathroom, another crawl into the back seat of an unlocked car (not her own) in the parking lot and &#8220;fall asleep&#8221; there, and a third who fell over on a serving table, shattering it and earning the scorn and laughter of . . . his wife.<\/p>\n<p>So my question to you, dear readers is, &#8220;What&#8217;s the most embarrassing \/ funny thing you&#8217;ve ever seen at a work-related Christmas party?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I headed into NYC last night after work to pick up Amy after her office&#8217;s Christmas party. My company&#8217;s party is this afternoon, which&#8217;ll give me a nice break from that big-ol&#8217; directory I&#8217;m laying out. Our &#8220;holiday&#8221; party has had some entertainment over the years. I mean, in addition to the planned stuff, like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/question-of-the-season\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Question of the Season&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-k8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1827,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/jingle-blorch","url_meta":{"origin":1248,"position":0},"title":"Jingle blorch","author":"Gil","date":"December 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I didn't embarrass myself at the office Christmas party (or \"holiday party,\" if that's your preference) yesterday. 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