{"id":439,"date":"2005-01-31T14:17:48","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T19:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=439"},"modified":"2005-12-06T07:35:57","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:35:57","slug":"business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/business-as-usual","title":{"rendered":"Business as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdnn.info\/news\/travel\/t050130.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>, the sex-biz is back to normal in Thailand. I&#8217;m not sure which line is funnier:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;Yes, we are just as busy as before the tsunami,&#8221; said Toto, a drag queen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[S]ex tourism [&#8230;] accounts for 5 per cent of Thailand&#8217;s gross domestic product.<br \/><\/span><br \/>because with the latter, you can talk about just how gross that domestic product really is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article, the sex-biz is back to normal in Thailand. I&#8217;m not sure which line is funnier: &#8220;Yes, we are just as busy as before the tsunami,&#8221; said Toto, a drag queen. or [S]ex tourism [&#8230;] accounts for 5 per cent of Thailand&#8217;s gross domestic product.because with the latter, you can talk about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/business-as-usual\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Business as usual&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-439","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-75","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8545,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-105-sincere-observation","url_meta":{"origin":439,"position":0},"title":"Podcast 105 &#8211; Sincere Observation","author":"Gil","date":"February 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: Mimi Gross\u00a0- Sincere Observation \"My weakness is that I don't have a set of parameters. 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