{"id":241797,"date":"2014-11-06T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=241797"},"modified":"2014-11-02T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T22:24:03","slug":"featured-speaker-david-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-david-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: David Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;margin: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eb9498e9eb88279fdbce175f7e512954?s=128&amp;d=identicon\" alt=\"\" \/>I\u2019m a professional writer with a focus on technology and digital life. I am also the editor of LabTO, a site that covers Toronto\u2019s tech culture. My work has appeared in publications such as The WHIR, TechVibes, Betakit, Biometric Update, and The National Post. I\u2019ve also done commercial copywriting for HP and Intel, as well as local brands including Kobayashi Online.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"David Hamilton\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/david-hamilton\/\">View David&#8217;s speaker profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Presentation:\u00a0<a title=\"A Quick Guide to Long-form Content on WordPress\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/session\/a-quick-guide-to-long-form-content-on-wordpress\/\">A Quick Guide to Long-form Content on WordPress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many of the most popular websites include long, in-depth content, and communities like Medium and Narratively are built around the idea that people crave long content \u2013 as long as it\u2019s worth their time.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation will go over some of the fundamentals of long-form content, what stories are best suited to long-form, and what tools and techniques can be used in WordPress to create compelling long-form pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a professional writer with a focus on technology and digital life. I am also the editor of LabTO, a site that covers Toronto\u2019s tech culture. My work has appeared in publications such as The WHIR, TechVibes, Betakit, Biometric Update, and The National Post. I\u2019ve also done commercial copywriting for HP and Intel, as well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-david-hamilton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Featured Speaker: David Hamilton<\/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-241797","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\/241797","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=241797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241799,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241797\/revisions\/241799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}