{"id":2874,"date":"2015-03-20T10:52:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T14:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2015-03-20T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T14:52:46","slug":"at-news-wrap-up-32015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"AT News Wrap Up, 3\/20\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couldn&#8217;t share them all (WAY too many) so I had to use the art of selection to represent. 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