{"id":330087,"date":"2013-09-25T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=330087"},"modified":"2013-09-21T18:51:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T23:51:17","slug":"featured-speaker-christopher-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/featured-speaker-christopher-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Christopher Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Christopher loves WordPress<\/a>, he loves that it lets him live a great life and he wants to teach others how to enjoy WordPress as much as he does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presentation:\u00a0How WordPress let me quit the rat race.<\/h3>\n

We all dream of winning the lotto, but what if we don\u2019t need to leave it to chance? Let\u2019s talk about a frank truth.\u00a0WordPress is awesome.\u00a0Let\u2019s talk about how I left corporate Canada behind, and how WordPress let me live the life I wanted.<\/p>\n

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What do you want people to learn from your presentation?<\/h3>\n

I want people to learn that there is a way to quit the stress of everyday life, and working with WordPress is the first step.<\/p>\n

What attracted you to WordPress in the first place?<\/h3>\n

I was lazy, and looking for a quick way to do a complicated task.<\/p>\n

My first WordPress project was a low budget job for a client, he wanted to be able to edit his homepage, WordPress let me do that without writing a custom solution.<\/p>\n

What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?<\/h3>\n

Meeting new people.<\/p>\n

Why did you decide to speak?<\/h3>\n

WordPress has given me a lot, I don’t feel right unless I give a little back.<\/p>\n

What is your favourite plugin or theme, and why?<\/h3>\n

At the moment, I’m in love with Pippin’s Easy Digital Downloads<\/a> plugin. It’s extremely easy to use, with some wonderful add-ons that have made my job a whole lot easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christopher loves WordPress, he loves that it lets him live a great life and he wants to teach others how to enjoy WordPress as much as he does. Presentation:\u00a0How WordPress let me quit the rat race. We all dream of winning the lotto, but what if we don\u2019t need to leave it to chance? Let\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6358608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18001],"tags":[18008],"class_list":["post-330087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-speaker","tag-christopher-ross"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330088,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330087\/revisions\/330088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}