{"id":21705,"date":"2019-11-05T08:44:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gigsalad.com\/blog\/?p=21705"},"modified":"2020-03-19T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T18:22:17","slug":"product-update-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gigsalad.com\/blog\/product-update-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Product Update: November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"last-updated entry-meta\">Last updated on March 19, 2020<\/p><br>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re in the middle of some bigger projects and on the cusp of a few launches, so we haven\u2019t had quite as much to post about. 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