{"id":836175,"date":"2014-05-21T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/?p=836175"},"modified":"2014-05-21T11:49:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T16:49:04","slug":"interview-with-dan-beil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/interview-with-dan-beil\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Dan Beil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"interview\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/#wcorg-speaker-dan-beil\">Dan Beil<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/add_action_dan\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/05\/twitter-square-icon.png\" alt=\"twitter dark blue jeans social media icons designed by icons.mysitemyway.com\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Dan will be presenting <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/session\/how-not-to-develop-with-wordpress\/\">How NOT to develop (With WordPress)<\/a> on Saturday in the\u00a0Business\/Project Management\u00a0track<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/350c69569b7edd028c862e342fcbbcc1?s=250\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dan has been a theme developer for the past 5 years, specializing in custom WordPress builds to address specific requirements. Recently Dan has joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinteractive.com\/\">Alley Interactive<\/a> team and works remotely from Minneapolis, MN.<\/p>\n<p>In his &#8220;free&#8221; time he fosters Siberian Huskies and sometimes contributes to opensource WordPress projects on GitHub.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"interview\">Interview:<\/h3>\n<p><b>Why do you use WordPress?<\/b><br \/>\nBecause open source is awesome and the community is great.  It also provides a ridiculous solid base for building more complex solutions which are still easy to use.<\/p>\n<p><b>What would you say to convince someone to attend a WordCamp?<\/b><br \/>\nIf you work with WordPress, attending a WordCamp is the best money you&#8217;ll ever spend!<\/p>\n<p><b>Tell us something awesome about yourself that is not WordPress related<\/b><br \/>\nFostering Siberian Huskies is hard work<\/p>\n<p><b>What is your favorite WordPress project you have worked on recently?<\/b><br \/>\nNew VIP builds &#8211; super interesting and complicated \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><b>Do you have any advice for someone looking to start or grow a WordPress based business?<\/b><br \/>\n1: Network, 2: Attend WordCamps, 3: Repeat Steps 1 &amp; 2<\/p>\n<p><b>What is your favorite WordPress-related resource?<\/b><br \/>\n@jjj, @daljo628, @pippinsplugins, @alisothegeek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan will be presenting How NOT to develop (With WordPress) on Saturday in the Business\/Project Management track<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5906591,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":[116624,29],"tags":[301614],"class_list":["post-836175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","category-speakers","tag-businessproject-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5906591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836466,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836175\/revisions\/836466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}