{"id":870062,"date":"2014-04-04T11:18:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T15:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=870062"},"modified":"2014-03-27T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:23:00","slug":"speaker-spotlight-julie-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-julie-harrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Julie Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-102 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack alignleft\" id=\"grav-eee2ad5c9d1fd20aad58fb133e6a5114-1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eee2ad5c9d1fd20aad58fb133e6a5114?s=162&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D102&amp;r=G\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" \/>Julie loves to play with words \u2013 for business and pleasure. As an independent communications consultant with CaffeineCommunications.ca, Julie develops strategies and creates content for businesses. As a personal blogger, she shares travel tales and family anecdotes on CoffeeWithJulie.ca. She\u2019s a big fan of strong coffee, social media, and life-long learning. You can connect with her <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coffeewithjulie\" target=\"_blank\">@coffeewithjulie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Julie is presenting: <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/session\/writing-tips-for-non-writers-no-grammar-geeks-allowed\/\">Writing Tips for Non-Writers (No Grammar Geeks Allowed!)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1) Why do you like using WordPress?<br \/>\nBecause it\u2019s easy. And because most developers like it.<\/p>\n<p>2) Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Ottawa?<br \/>\nI loved (loved!) last year\u2019s event and wanted to come back for more.<\/p>\n<p>3) What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?<br \/>\nWith a little bit of elbow grease, we can all be better writers. As Ernest Hemmingway once said: \u201cIt\u2019s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4) What is your favourite WordPress plugin or theme? Why?<br \/>\nYoast\u2019s WordPress SEO Plug-in. I don\u2019t really like to think about SEO when I\u2019m blogging, so this plug-in is a nice little friend tapping me on my shoulder before I press \u201cpublish\u201d on a post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie loves to play with words \u2013 for business and pleasure. As an independent communications consultant with CaffeineCommunications.ca, Julie develops strategies and creates content for businesses. As a personal blogger, she shares travel tales and family anecdotes on CoffeeWithJulie.ca. She\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-julie-harrison\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Julie Harrison<\/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-870062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8356622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870064,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870062\/revisions\/870064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}