{"id":2261,"date":"2008-08-16T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T16:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2008-08-16T12:41:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T16:41:23","slug":"a-self-selecting-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-self-selecting-profession","title":{"rendered":"A self-selecting profession?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at Foreign Policy’s blog<\/a>, I came across this image of a billboard from the early ’90s<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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As my wife<\/a> put it, “How do you know when an engineer is outgoing? When you have a conversation and he stares at your shoes instead of his shoes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at Foreign Policy’s blog, I came across this image of a billboard from the early ’90s: As my wife put it, “How do you know when an engineer is outgoing? When you have a conversation and he stares at your shoes instead of his shoes.”<\/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-2261","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-At","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":794,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-redline-shoes","url_meta":{"origin":2261,"position":0},"title":"The Redline Shoes","author":"Gil","date":"January 8, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"VM reader and former official VM bartenderess Bonnie Erickson purports to be close to launching her own blog. 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