{"id":67921,"date":"2015-06-05T11:35:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T11:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/national-day-of-civic-hacking\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:05:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:05:33","slug":"national-day-of-civic-hacking","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/\/uncategorized\/national-day-of-civic-hacking","title":{"rendered":"National Day of Civic Hacking"},"author":5271,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[],"tags":[26221],"industry":[],"product":[36601],"class_list":["post-67921","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-open-data","product-developers"],"acf":{"short_description":"\n\nThe\u00a0US National Day of Civic Hacking\u00a0is a day where thousands of developers, data scientists, government staff, civic hackers and cit...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/06\/687474703a2f2f6861636b666f726368616e67652e6f72672f77702d636f6e74656e742f75706c6f6164732f323031352f30352f6e645f6c6f676f5f6c696768742e706e67.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"160\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49982\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ajturner\/8599492396\/in\/album-72157633110724797\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/06\/8599492396_6a04a826b0_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-49983\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hackforchange.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">US National Day of Civic Hacking<\/a>\u00a0is a day where thousands of developers, data scientists, government staff, civic hackers and citizens gather to create innovative solutions for communities to improve local services. 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