{"id":151,"date":"2014-06-09T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.splice.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:48:00","slug":"welcoming-katrina-owen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/welcoming-katrina-owen\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming Katrina Owen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Splice team is delighted to announce that <a title=\"Katrina Owen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kytrinyx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katrina Owen<\/a> is joining our now even <em>awesomer<\/em> engineering team!<\/p>\n<p>Katrina is a full stack polyglot developer and <a href=\"http:\/\/rubyheroes.com\/\">Ruby hero award winner<\/a>. 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