{"id":571,"date":"2005-06-14T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=571"},"modified":"2005-12-09T08:26:18","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T13:26:18","slug":"pants-down-work-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/pants-down-work-day","title":{"rendered":"Pants-Down Work Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working at home today, writing up profiles of the top 20 pharma and top 10 biopharma companies, for our annual Top Companies issue. It&#8217;s a ton of research and writing, so I figured, &#8220;<strike>Why wear pants?<\/strike> Why not cocoon myself here at home and get writin&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Depending on your level of curiosity, it can be a pretty entertaining project. Especially when you have to write about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vioxx.com\/rofecoxib\/vioxx\/consumer\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Merck<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working at home today, writing up profiles of the top 20 pharma and top 10 biopharma companies, for our annual Top Companies issue. It&#8217;s a ton of research and writing, so I figured, &#8220;Why wear pants? Why not cocoon myself here at home and get writin&#8217;?&#8221; Depending on your level of curiosity, it can be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/pants-down-work-day\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pants-Down Work Day!&#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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmaceuticals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-9d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2111,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/which-way-to-the-gun-show","url_meta":{"origin":571,"position":0},"title":"Which way to the gun show?","author":"Gil","date":"June 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes, I get a little punchy from writing these Top Companies profiles all day. 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