Ah success. I guess what I meant wasn’t “outside the loop” but actually “outside the framework. I found the code I was missing:
require_once('../../../../wp-load.php');
require_once('../../../../wp-includes/post.php');
This seems to work. Is there a security risk in loading the php data and @readfile’ing it onto another page in this manner?
Excellent. Part of my issue was bad test ID’s-
Still not working. Is my get_post_meta syntax correct?
After more diligent searching I found my answer.
Sorry for the false alarm.
Working solution was here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/303390?replies=2
I guess more toward the end result; I’d like to also be able to return the permalink of the parent page.