{"id":23460,"date":"2015-11-06T09:53:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T09:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/?p=23460"},"modified":"2017-03-06T10:12:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T10:12:39","slug":"skwigly-at-klik-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/skwigly-at-klik-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Skwigly at KLIK! &#8211; Special Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our series of exclusive podcast minisodes from this year&#8217;s edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klik.amsterdam\" target=\"_blank\">KLIK! 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