{"id":1227617,"date":"2017-02-01T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-categories-as-post-categories\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:09:09","slug":"event-categories-as-post-categories","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-categories-as-post-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Categories as Post Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>My WordPress theme supports image sliders and banners that will display posts by category.  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