{"id":1801,"date":"2007-11-28T07:31:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T12:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-am-i-a-farmer\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T07:32:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T12:32:42","slug":"what-am-i-a-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-am-i-a-farmer","title":{"rendered":"What am I, a farmer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, I was writing to a buddy about how tired I was from my autumn biz-travel schedule. I think I was attempting to elicit sympathy for going to Milan, Las Vegas and San Diego over the course of 6 weeks. “Boy, you think you’ve<\/em> got it tough. . .”<\/p>\n

In that spirit, I won’t even try to express any sort of discomfort over tonight’s gala in NYC. It’s a dinner\/dance benefit event for Just One Break<\/a>, an employment service for people with disabilities. Pfizer’s outgoing R&D chief is one of the honorees, and one of my pals at that company kindly invited me and my wife. (Thanks, Mak!)<\/p>\n

I’m suspicious that this is just a plot by my (day job<\/a>) readership to find out exactly what sorta woman would consent to spend the rest of her life married to me, so I’m thinking of asking Amy to wear a burka to the event.<\/p>\n

I, meanwhile, am wrestling with the concept of “black tie optional.” I don’t think that covers leather chaps and a giant sombrero, so it looks like I’ll have to stop off at the dry cleaner and ransom my nice black suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, I was writing to a buddy about how tired I was from my autumn biz-travel schedule. I think I was attempting to elicit sympathy for going to Milan, Las Vegas and San Diego over the course of 6 weeks. “Boy, you think you’ve got it tough. . .” In that spirit, I won’t … <\/p>\n

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