{"id":241800,"date":"2014-11-06T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=241800"},"modified":"2014-11-02T17:23:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T22:23:47","slug":"featured-speaker-lucas-cherkewski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-lucas-cherkewski\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Lucas Cherkewski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;margin: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d283f8d93b4b59077ff0c45af78f8d7b?s=128&amp;d=identicon\" alt=\"\" \/>Lucas is a full-time high school student, a job which is sometimes more demanding than the freelance gig he pulls during evenings and weekends. He\u00a0believes that humans are people, too, and that we move so quickly we forget that nowadays. Public speaking is one of his favourite activities. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lchski\" target=\"_blank\">You can follow Lucas on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lucas Cherkewski\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/lucas-cherkewski\/\">View Lucas&#8217; speaker profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Presentation: <a title=\"Designing Creativity\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/session\/designing-creativity\/\">Designing Creativity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Design doesn\u2019t have to be something that requires special talent, nor is it something limited to so-called \u201ccreative\u201d people. Design is a skill, to be learnt and practiced like any other.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll learn how to apply the principles of problem solving to a real design project to remove the necessity of a \u201ccreative\u201d mind, and gain some tips for good design thinking along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas is a full-time high school student, a job which is sometimes more demanding than the freelance gig he pulls during evenings and weekends. He\u00a0believes that humans are people, too, and that we move so quickly we forget that nowadays. Public speaking is one of his favourite activities. You can follow Lucas on Twitter. View &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-lucas-cherkewski\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Featured Speaker: Lucas Cherkewski<\/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-241800","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\/241800","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=241800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241802,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241800\/revisions\/241802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}