{"id":1603,"date":"2007-07-26T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/getaway\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T12:05:00","slug":"getaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/getaway","title":{"rendered":"Getaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work is under control: the July\/August issue landed on my desk yesterday, the Top Companies report’s website<\/a> is live, our conference enrollment<\/a> is rolling along, and our September issue looks like it’ll be a big one. So I’m taking a vacation day!<\/p>\n

I’m heading down to Philly to visit a friend of mine<\/a> (Drake, not Butch) for a while. No worries, dear readers: I’ll have my camera with me and will likely end up somewhere where I can take some neat pix. Maybe I’ll meander downtown in Philly or visit the suburbs near Swarthmore where I used to live. Or I could stop in Princeton on the way home and stop in at the campus art museum<\/a> (and the Record Exchange<\/a>, of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Work is under control: the July\/August issue landed on my desk yesterday, the Top Companies report’s website is live, our conference enrollment is rolling along, and our September issue looks like it’ll be a big one. So I’m taking a vacation day! I’m heading down to Philly to visit a friend of mine (Drake, not … <\/p>\n

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