{"id":3434,"date":"2010-03-11T01:47:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T06:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2014-02-08T19:24:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T00:24:43","slug":"kennesaw-photo-meetup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/kennesaw-photo-meetup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennesaw Photo Meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3444\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/kennesaw-photo-meetup-2\/w_b-vong-com_pix_kennesaw_031210_2a\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/w_b-vong.com_pix_kennesaw_031210_2a.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"450,1730\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"w_b-vong.com_pix_kennesaw_031210_2a\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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