{"id":836225,"date":"2014-05-16T10:57:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/?p=836225"},"modified":"2014-05-15T18:01:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T23:01:46","slug":"interview-with-aaron-jorbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/interview-with-aaron-jorbin\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Aaron Jorbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"interview\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/#wcorg-speaker-aaron-jorbin\">Aaron Jorbin<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronjorbin\/\"><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=\"aaronjorbin\"><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>Aaron will be presenting <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.chicago.wordcamp.org\/session\/color-theory-for-web-developers\/\">Color Theory for Web Developers<\/a> on Saturday in the Design track<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b3e2b94eb305bf95a1bee11bc7705fb7?s=250\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aaron is a Polyhistoric man of the web. Currently Technical Architect on the Conde Nast Platform Team and a WordPress contributor, he works to improve developer happiness and is dedicated to making internet usable and enjoyable by everyone.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"interview\">Interview:<\/h3>\n<p><b>Why do you use WordPress?<\/b><br \/>\nThe GPL and the community.<\/p>\n<p><b>What would you say to convince someone to attend a WordCamp?<\/b><br \/>\nWordCamps are some of the best value web conferences you can attend. Where as many other conferences cost a few hundred dollar, a WordCamp costs under $100 and features speakers just as interesting and informational.<\/p>\n<p><b>What is your favorite WordPress project you have worked on recently?<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/aaronjorbin\/grunt-patch-wordpress\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/github.com\/aaronjorbin\/grunt-patch-wordpress<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Do you have any advice for someone looking to start or grow a WordPress based business?<\/b><br \/>\nAlign yourself with the WordPress Philosophies. Make decisions, not options. Embrace the GPL.<\/p>\n<p><b>What is your favorite WordPress-related resource?<\/b><br \/>\nThe source code of WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tell us something awesome about yourself that is not WordPress related<\/b><br \/>\nI spend my free time volunteering with American Model United Nations as a simulation director planning and running a multi-day simulation of the United Nations Security Council for college students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron will be presenting Color Theory for Web Developers on Saturday in the Design 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":[185],"class_list":["post-836225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","category-speakers","tag-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836225","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=836225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836308,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836225\/revisions\/836308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}