{"id":31692,"date":"2019-04-29T11:26:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T15:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=31692"},"modified":"2019-05-01T15:20:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T19:20:23","slug":"medicine-grand-rounds-2019-may-9","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/event\/medicine-grand-rounds-2019-may-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine Grand Rounds, Sarah McGill &#8220;C. Diff. 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