{"id":571,"date":"2012-08-08T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/?p=571"},"modified":"2012-08-08T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T17:56:12","slug":"why-am-i-excited-a-first-timers-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2012\/why-am-i-excited-a-first-timers-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Am I Excited? A first-timer&#8217;s perspective&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I looking forward to WordCamp Grand Rapids 2012? Mostly because I can&#8217;t wait to meet fellow WordPressers in person. It&#8217;s fine to read the blog posts, listen to the podcasts, and view the websites that people produce, but there&#8217;s no substitute for talking in person.<\/p>\n<p>We have some great people in the WordPress community, local to Grand Rapids and scattered across the globe. The <a title=\"Speakers\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/\">speaker list<\/a> alone includes several people I&#8217;m eager to catch up with or meet for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Topher DeRosia is a founder of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/wpgrandrapids\/\">WordPress Grand Rapids meetup group<\/a>, and he&#8217;s given me a lot of pointers about WordPress and freelancing. Dustin Hartzler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/yourwebsiteengineer.com\/\">Your Website Engineer podcast<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/wpcandy.com\/shows\">WPCandy podcasts<\/a> produced by Ryan Imel and Justin Jones are among <a href=\"http:\/\/optimwise.com\/best-wordpress-podcasts-spring-2012\/\">my favorite WordPress podcasts<\/a>. Lisa Sabin-Wilson&#8217;s WordPress for Dummies books have been a great way for me to learn and teach my clients.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also looking forward to meeting some of the other well-known members of the WordPress community, including John James Jacoby, Mark Jaquith, and Pippin Wiliamson. Of course, I want to meet and learn about all the other speakers as well. Plus, there&#8217;ll be all the attendees to talk to!<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you <a href=\"https:\/\/2012.grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/attend\/\">come to WordCamp Grand Rapids<\/a>, so I can meet you too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I looking forward to WordCamp Grand Rapids 2012? Mostly because I can&#8217;t wait to meet fellow WordPressers in person. It&#8217;s fine to read the blog posts, listen to the podcasts, and view the websites that people produce, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2012\/why-am-i-excited-a-first-timers-perspective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Am I Excited? A first-timer&#8217;s perspective&#8230;<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8173826,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2g32f-9d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8173826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}