{"id":1296,"date":"2011-05-02T03:45:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T03:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bme2.flywheelsites.com\/blog\/the-belated-weekly-wrap\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T20:21:34","slug":"the-belated-weekly-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benchmarkemail.com\/in\/the-belated-weekly-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"The (Belated) Weekly Wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s wrap has a ton of great email marketing information, and the five albums I would want with me if I was deserted on an island. This wrap also caused me to consider how ridiculous of a question that is. Do deserted islands even have CD players? Or power?<\/p>\n<h4>Email Marketing Software: How Our RSS to Email Feature Works<\/h4>\n<p>This post taught me that RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Am I the only one that thinks that&#8217;s a little bit condescending? 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