{"id":6033,"date":"2011-06-21T18:28:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T22:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2011-06-21T18:28:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T22:28:52","slug":"who-am-i-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/who-am-i-16","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m the guy who spoke to three people today: my wife, the cashier at the Baja Express on Rt. 23, and the communications director at a major pharmaceutical company, who called to let me know that the person I interviewed at her company 3 weeks ago for a 2-page feature in my current ish has left the company and that I can’t run the interview. A week from press time.<\/p>\n

The fourth<\/em> person I spoke to was myself, and that involved a lot of cursing and muttering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m the guy who spoke to three people today: my wife, the cashier at the Baja Express on Rt. 23, and the communications director at a major pharmaceutical company, who called to let me know that the person I interviewed at her company 3 weeks ago for a 2-page feature in my current ish has … <\/p>\n

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