{"id":1261,"date":"2012-11-06T08:26:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T20:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2012-11-06T08:26:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T20:26:17","slug":"new-delphi-product-manager-to-be-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1261\/","title":{"rendered":"New Delphi Product Manager to be Announced ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/sergworks.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/03\/be-careful-with-ord-function-in-unicode-delphi-versions\/#comment-8563\">Rumour has it<\/a> that we will soon be hearing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcocantu.com\/\">Marco Cantu<\/a> is to be hired\/appointed\/whatever as Delphi Product Manager.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhat do we think of this ?  A poisoned chalice for Marco ?  A much needed shot in the arm for Delphi ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span> Rumour has it that we will soon be hearing that Marco Cantu is to be hired\/appointed\/whatever as Delphi Product Manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-kl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1264,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1264\/","url_meta":{"origin":1261,"position":0},"title":"New Delphi Product Manager and Top Engineers Depart ?","date":"07 Nov 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently the appointment of Macro Cant\u00f9 as Delphi Product Manager has now been officially announced or at least confirmed. 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