{"id":70791,"date":"2016-01-29T07:14:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T07:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/announcing-local-government-scenes\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T22:20:23","slug":"announcing-local-government-scenes","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-solutions\/3d-gis\/announcing-local-government-scenes","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Local Government Scenes"},"author":4661,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771,22841],"tags":[25781,25591,23921,29381],"industry":[],"product":[36561,42661],"class_list":["post-70791","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-local-government","tag-3d","tag-arcgis-desktop","tag-arcgis-for-local-government","tag-scene","product-arcgis-pro","product-arcgis-solutions"],"acf":{"short_description":"Want to bring your local government into the world of 3D visualization? 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