{"id":2218,"date":"2010-09-13T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2010\/09\/first-post-from-the-ipad\/"},"modified":"2010-09-13T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T21:02:09","slug":"first-post-from-the-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2010\/09\/first-post-from-the-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"First post from the iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I went away for our UK office away day, our equivalent of an internal conference. It was a fun and exhausting weekend and part of the excitement was the presentation of the internal<br \/>\niPad competition that my team of three competed in. <\/p>\n<p>The prize was an iPad for each member of the winning team. 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