{"id":876101,"date":"2014-04-23T13:35:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T17:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.charleston.wordcamp.org\/?p=876101"},"modified":"2014-04-23T07:56:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T11:56:13","slug":"speaker-spotlight-john-saddington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-john-saddington\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight &#8211; John Saddington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-876102\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.charleston.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/04\/john-saddington.jpg\" alt=\"John Saddington\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/04\/john-saddington.jpg 600w, https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/04\/john-saddington-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/04\/john-saddington-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Saddington is a hacker, writer, entrepreneur, engineer and future venture capitalist. He has an insatiable curiosity for online technology, digital publishing and many forms of entertainment. He has worked as an engineer and executive for Fortune 50 companies and has exited a handful of bootstrapped and VC-funded startups.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->He serves as a partner and Chief Strategy Officer for\u00a0<a title=\"The Iron Yard\" href=\"http:\/\/theironyard.com\/\">The Iron Yard<\/a>, setting the tone for how the organization grows and builds culture. He\u2019s also the chief hacker at his newest startup,\u00a0<a title=\"Pressgram\" href=\"http:\/\/pressgram.com\/\">Pressgram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On May 17, he&#8217;ll be discussing\u00a0<a title=\"How to Start a WordPress-Centric Business\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.charleston.wordcamp.org\/session\/business-oriented\/\">How to Start a WordPress-Centric Business<\/a>. Learn more about him at <a title=\"http:\/\/john.do\/\" href=\"http:\/\/john.do\/\">john.do<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Saddington is a hacker, writer, entrepreneur, engineer and future venture capitalist. He has an insatiable curiosity for online technology, digital publishing and many forms of entertainment. He has worked as an engineer and executive for Fortune 50 companies and has exited a handful of bootstrapped and VC-funded startups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11851396,"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":[248339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11851396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876156,"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876101\/revisions\/876156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}