{"id":3146,"date":"2015-08-28T13:07:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T17:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2015-08-28T13:07:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T17:07:04","slug":"at-news-wrap-up-82815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3146","title":{"rendered":"AT News Wrap Up, 8\/28\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whew! Hope you have your reading glasses on because there&#8217;s a lot of good stuff in here this week. DIY captioning for the deaf, baby carriers for paraplegic moms, incredible clothing designs for kids with autism&#8230;Seriously, you don&#8217;t want to miss\u00a0this. 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