{"id":2307,"date":"2019-07-17T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vapc.org\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2019-07-17T13:59:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:59:26","slug":"winners-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/winners-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bodyH5-26\">And the winners are&#8230;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bodyH2-26\"><a href=\"https:\/\/click.mlsend.com\/link\/c\/YT0xMjAxNTE5MjkyNjM4NTY2MTc3JmM9cDNyNyZlPTUzNDkxNzI4JmI9MjYzOTQ4OTM2JmQ9ejFhOW02aA==.C3qKW-tjip3q7-uu3BDOmwNVSZkd7kW3qJM7hGu7eAc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Contest<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>First-place winners in the Virginia Professional Communicators contest advanced to the National Federation of Press Women\u2019s contest, where they competed with other first-place winners from state affiliates of NFPW. 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