{"id":1699,"date":"2013-12-18T03:08:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T11:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2023-03-06T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T02:19:14","slug":"3-million-budding-coders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/3-million-budding-coders\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Million Budding Coders!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Did you know?<\/h1>\n<p>Over 3 million participants used Tynker&#8217;s programming puzzles last week during the Hour-of-Code! 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