{"id":13639,"date":"2015-08-11T07:10:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T11:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=13639"},"modified":"2015-08-11T08:32:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:32:48","slug":"state-of-the-region-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/11\/state-of-the-region-live\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;State of the Region&#8221; &#8211; LIVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re running behind on cleaning up our previous articles, but that&#8217;s not going to stop us from covering a busy Tuesday here on SouthsideCentral. 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