{"id":836221,"date":"2014-05-24T18:20:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T23:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/?p=836221"},"modified":"2014-05-15T22:45:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T03:45:50","slug":"interview-with-aaron-holbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/interview-with-aaron-holbrook\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Aaron Holbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"interview\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/#wcorg-speaker-aaron-holbrook\">Aaron Holbrook<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronjholbrook\/\"><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>Aaron will be presenting <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/session\/introduction-to-ides-and-debugging\/\">Introduction to IDEs and Debugging<\/a> on Sunday\u00a0in the Advanced Development track<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b727d9a86047391aab86fdb87dc6c313?s=250\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aaron&#8217;s passions are his wife and two boys, gaming and exercising. He devises brilliant solutions as a Web Engineer at <a href=\"\/\/10up.com\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\">10up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron was the Lead Organizer of WordCamp Chicago in 2013 and founded the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago WordPress Meetup.<\/p>\n<p>He has spoken at more over half a dozen WordCamps ranging from WordCamp Milwaukee to WordCamp Providence and loves to teach others the joys of using remarkable tools well.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"interview\">Interview:<\/h3>\n<p><b>Why do you use WordPress?<\/b><br \/>\nI use WordPress because of it&#8217;s ease of use for the end user. I have always been impressed by the amount of work that has gone into making the user experience as simple and as intuitive as possible.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of CMSs out there that simply do not think about how the user will actually have to USE their interface and because of that they suffer.<\/p>\n<p><b>What would you say to convince someone to attend a WordCamp?<\/b><br \/>\nOMG, you haven&#8217;t been to a WordCamp yet? What are you doing with your life?<\/p>\n<p>Haha, in all seriousness though, a WordCamp is a great place for all levels to learn, meet other community members and to simply get inspired and reinvigorated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron will be presenting Introduction to IDEs and Debugging on Sunday 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-836221","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\/836221","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=836221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836398,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836221\/revisions\/836398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}