{"id":108,"date":"2007-04-04T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/04\/the-sapien-technologies-story\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T13:10:52","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T17:10:52","slug":"the-sapien-technologies-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/108\/the-sapien-technologies-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The SAPIEN Technologies Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\";font-family:tahoma;font-size:100%;\"  ><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">I always like reading about the \"back story\" in movies.  You know, the stuff that happened before the movie started or stuff that helps fill out the story.  Companies and people can also have a back story.  Maybe I'll reveal some of mine someday.  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