{"id":967,"date":"2012-05-24T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T15:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2012-05-24T11:39:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T15:39:17","slug":"at-in-the-news-weekly-wrap-up-5242012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"AT in the news Weekly Wrap-Up, 5\/24\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the upcoming Memorial Day\u00a0holiday, we&#8217;re wrapping up the news a little early. But don&#8217;t despair, there&#8217;s no lack of AT articles in the news this week, 5\/21 &#8211; 5\/24. 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