{"id":8728,"date":"2015-05-16T08:03:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T12:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2015-05-16T08:03:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T12:03:39","slug":"what-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-i-do","title":{"rendered":"What I do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t talk too much about my day job, in the podcast or on this site. I&#8217;m the president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/pharma-bio.org\" target=\"_blank\">PBOA<\/a>, a pharmaceutical industry trade association, but that doesn&#8217;t provide much of a clue as to what I actually do. 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