{"id":740,"date":"2005-11-03T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=740"},"modified":"2005-12-11T11:56:15","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T16:56:15","slug":"update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/update","title":{"rendered":"Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to be outta touch, dear readers! The internet connection at the hotel is dodgier than I thought. Plus, I&#8217;ve been working at the conference and then dining with clients in the evenings.<\/p>\n<p>But the conference is all over, so it&#8217;s time for sightseeing and souvenir-shopping! Pictures will come when I&#8217;m back in civilization, and not this poor-service, non-English-speaking backwater!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to be outta touch, dear readers! The internet connection at the hotel is dodgier than I thought. Plus, I&#8217;ve been working at the conference and then dining with clients in the evenings. But the conference is all over, so it&#8217;s time for sightseeing and souvenir-shopping! Pictures will come when I&#8217;m back in civilization, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/update\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update&#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":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madrid","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4C7K-update","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1855,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/conference-call-2","url_meta":{"origin":740,"position":0},"title":"Conference Call","author":"Gil","date":"January 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"As the editor of a (trade) magazine, part of my job involves finding pertinent topics for articles and good writers to cover them. 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A team in Sacramento not only sounds less interesting than one in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;basketball&quot;","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":641,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/halfway-there","url_meta":{"origin":740,"position":3},"title":"Halfway there!","author":"Gil","date":"September 30, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Conference is wrapped up! We received much praise! And I got to go back to Cafe Matisse for a celebratory dinner last night! Details (and menu) to follow!I still have to write and lay out a ton of pages this weekend, but at least the stress of the conference is\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1193,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-with-the-decisions","url_meta":{"origin":740,"position":4},"title":"More with the decisions","author":"Gil","date":"November 6, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I should mention that, instead of going to the Magic game tonight, I could partake in the big conference reception\/party. Unfortunately, it's being held at, ahem, Pleasure Island. 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