{"id":241658,"date":"2014-11-14T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=241658"},"modified":"2014-11-02T17:33:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T22:33:58","slug":"featured-speaker-adam-silverstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-adam-silverstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Adam Silverstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px;float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fddbd6c3e1c3d971aa732b9346aeb433?s=128&amp;d=identicon\" alt=\"\" \/>&#8220;I am a contributing developer to WordPress and was recognized as a \u201cRockstar\u201d for my role in the revisions rewrite for WordPress 3.6. I am currently the revisions component maintainer. I work as a Senior Web Engineer at <a href=\"http:\/\/10up.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">10up<\/a>. I love long rafting trips, playing mbira, travel, taking walks and tending my over sized garden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Adam Silverstein\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/adam-silverstein\/\">View Adam&#8217;s speaker profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Presentation:\u00a0<a title=\"Put a little Backbone in your WordPress!\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/session\/put-a-little-backbone-in-your-wordpress\/\">Put a little Backbone in your WordPress!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Backbone (and Underscore!) are bundled with WordPress \u2013 explore how you can leverage their power to deliver complex user experiences while keeping your code organized and maintainable. When and why should you use Backbone? How can WordPress help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am a contributing developer to WordPress and was recognized as a \u201cRockstar\u201d for my role in the revisions rewrite for WordPress 3.6. I am currently the revisions component maintainer. I work as a Senior Web Engineer at 10up. I love long rafting trips, playing mbira, travel, taking walks and tending my over sized garden.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-adam-silverstein\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Featured Speaker: Adam Silverstein<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241662,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241658\/revisions\/241662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}