{"id":861,"date":"2006-03-03T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T02:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/update-7\/"},"modified":"2006-03-03T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T02:40:02","slug":"update-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/update-7","title":{"rendered":"Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I&#8217;ve been out of touch, dear reader. We&#8217;re closing in on the wedding date (March 12!), and this has necessitated a ton of work at the day job, preparing the April issue of the magazine so that my associate editor can handle what I&#8217;m leaving behind.<\/p>\n<p>This will necessitate my knocking out articles on biogeneric drugs and site selection criteria for pharma facilities, and updating our glossary of pharma &#038; biopharma terms. Since one of my associates at a major pharma company just sent me an in-house list of acronyms used in the industry, it looks like I&#8217;ll be updating a bunch of the glossary entries for this year&#8217;s edition.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll be getting married in 9 days. So, I&#8217;m probably not going to post anything for the next bunch of days, is what I&#8217;m saying. Typing. Whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I&#8217;ve been out of touch, dear reader. We&#8217;re closing in on the wedding date (March 12!), and this has necessitated a ton of work at the day job, preparing the April issue of the magazine so that my associate editor can handle what I&#8217;m leaving behind. This will necessitate my knocking out articles on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/update-7\" 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","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-dT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1131,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/always-with-the-pictures-2","url_meta":{"origin":861,"position":0},"title":"Always with the pictures","author":"Gil","date":"October 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"As promised, we got Amy's pix converted and uploaded. 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The anonymous author discusses the flaws in the R&D model among major pharma companies and develops an interesting method of fixing them: Go Hollywood! Big Pharma continues to follow the old studio model, though there are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1395,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/axis-of-green","url_meta":{"origin":861,"position":4},"title":"Axis of Green","author":"Gil","date":"March 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy St. Patrick's Day, my drunken Irish readers! It's not yet 9am local time, so I'll assume you only have a good buzz on at present! It's a hectic weekend here at stately VM Manor. 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