{"id":1045,"date":"2015-02-21T16:33:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T21:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.atlanta.wordcamp.org\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2015-02-23T19:59:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T00:59:48","slug":"getting-to-know-john-saddington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/getting-to-know-john-saddington\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to Know John Saddington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1046\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.atlanta.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/02\/John-Saddington-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"John-Saddington\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nJohn is a hacker, writer, and lover of all things 8-bit. His first project of note was a &#8220;Choose Your Own Adventure&#8221; quest in BASIC when he was 11. He grew up (a bit) and has since worked as an engineer and executive for Fortune 50 companies and has exited a handful of bootstrapped and VC-funded startups.<\/p>\n<p>He serves as partner and the head of people development and growth at <a href=\"http:\/\/theironyard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Iron Yard<\/a>. At night he works on his small app called <a href=\"http:\/\/desk.pm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Desk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WCATL 2015 Session \u2013 Spinach in Your Teeth? Rapid Fire Website Critiques<\/strong><br \/>\nPanel Presentation with Judi Knight, Jenny Munn and David Laietta<\/p>\n<p>Join us and find out best practices for home page content and design. If you&#8217;d like to get some feedback, this is the place for you. Be prepared to give us your website URL and we will tell you like it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John is a hacker, writer, and lover of all things 8-bit. His first project of note was a &#8220;Choose Your Own Adventure&#8221; quest in BASIC when he was 11. He grew up (a bit) and has since worked as an engineer and executive for Fortune 50 companies and has exited a handful of bootstrapped and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3004019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6846],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qmLu-gR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3004019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}