{"id":1653,"date":"2013-04-11T12:15:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2013-04-11T09:01:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T13:01:30","slug":"speaker-spotlight-scott-gallant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker-spotlight-scott-gallant\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Scott Gallant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-102 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack alignleft\" id=\"grav-96407c4e3eaeba41746145b54a91d812-1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.gravatar.com\/avatar\/96407c4e3eaeba41746145b54a91d812?s=102&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D102&amp;r=G\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" \/>Scott is a front-end web developer and UI\/UX expert based out of Prince Edward Island. He co-founded <i>WP Status<\/i> and runs a design firm that specializes in WordPress theme development. \u00a0Get in touch at <a href=\"mailto:scott@wpstatus.com\">scott@wpstatus.com<\/a> or on twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@scottgallant\">@scottgallant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scott is presenting: <a href=\"https:\/\/2013.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/session\/coding-a-theme-from-scratch\/\">Coding a theme from scratch<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"483\" border=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"158\" height=\"17\"><strong>Why WordPress? Why do you like using WordPress?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"325\">Somebody once told me &#8220;every one who attempts to build a custom CMS, ends up moving to WordPress for all subsequent projects&#8221;. \u00a0In my case, that&#8217;s true.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"158\" height=\"17\"><strong>Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Ottawa?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"325\">I have family in Ottawa and I love WordPress!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"158\" height=\"17\"><strong>What is your talk going to be about?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"325\">WordPress Theming from Scratch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"158\" height=\"17\"><strong>What is your favourite WordPress plugin or theme? Why?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"325\">WP Status, of course \ud83d\ude09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott is a front-end web developer and UI\/UX expert based out of Prince Edward Island. He co-founded WP Status and runs a design firm that specializes in WordPress theme development. \u00a0Get in touch at scott@wpstatus.com or on twitter @scottgallant Scott &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker-spotlight-scott-gallant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Scott Gallant<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8356622,"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":[9463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2OVcL-qF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8356622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}