{"id":836201,"date":"2014-06-03T11:40:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T16:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/?p=836201"},"modified":"2014-05-14T22:41:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T03:41:34","slug":"interview-with-gregory-cornelius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/interview-with-gregory-cornelius\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Gregory Cornelius"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"interview\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/#wcorg-speaker-gregory-cornelius\">Gregory Cornelius<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gcorne\/\"><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> <a href=\"gcorne\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/05\/flickr-square-icon.png\" alt=\"Flickr dark blue jeans social media icons designed by icons.mysitemyway.com\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Gregory will be presenting <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/session\/taking-your-javascript-further\/\">Taking Your JavaScript Further <\/a> on Saturday in the Advanced Development track<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/16836597f6d030b7ea01750a33e058df?s=250\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gregory Cornelius is a code wrangler at Automattic and WordPress core contributor. Prior to moving to Boston, Massachusetts, Gregory spent ten years pursuing music degrees at schools in Missouri, Ohio, and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, he discovered that helping folks share their ideas on the web with WordPress was invigorating and has been doing so professionally since 2008.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"interview\">Interview:<\/h3>\n<p><b>Why do you use WordPress?<\/b><br \/>\nI love how awesome the WordPress community is, how easy it is for users to edit content, and how it can scale from personal blogs to large complicated enterprise installations.<\/p>\n<p><b>What would you say to convince someone to attend a WordCamp?<\/b><br \/>\nWordCamps are inexpensive and are great chance to meet people in your area doing awesome things with WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><b>What is your favorite WordPress project you have worked on recently?<\/b><br \/>\nHaving the opportunity to work on some of the main new features in WordPress 3.9 was<\/p>\n<p><b>Do you have any advice for someone looking to start or grow a WordPress based business?<\/b><br \/>\nNever stop learning and listening to users. Users will always give you clues and insights that you can use to make their lives better and solve their problems.<\/p>\n<p><b>What is your favorite WordPress-related resource?<\/b><br \/>\nThe source code.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tell us something awesome about yourself that is not WordPress related<\/b><br \/>\nI wrote a pretty neat piece of music Earth and Green inspired by Mark Rothko&#8217;s painting of the same name in 2006. And, then in 2009, I got married in the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory will be presenting Taking Your JavaScript Further on Saturday in the Advanced Development 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":[302621],"class_list":["post-836201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","category-speakers","tag-advanced-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836201","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=836201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836281,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836201\/revisions\/836281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}