{"id":374,"date":"2015-06-24T10:16:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.scranton.wordcamp.org\/?p=374"},"modified":"2015-06-24T10:18:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:18:54","slug":"get-to-know-your-organizers-joe-casabona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/get-to-know-your-organizers-joe-casabona\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know Your Organizers: Joe Casabona"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2015-06-19<\/p>\n

1) What do you do for a living?<\/b><\/p>\n

I’m a Front End Developer at Crowd Favorite, where we do enterprise-level development specializing in WordPress. I generally do things like theme and plugin development using HTML, Sass\/CSS, Javascript, and PHP. I work with our Backend Developers to make super cool things!<\/p>\n

2) How did you get into WordPress?<\/b><\/p>\n

My freshman year of college (2003-04), my friend Steve Mekosh introduced me to this new blogging platform called WordPress. I checked it out and really liked. From there I started to play around with it, implementing it on my own blog first then doing some pilot programs with freelance clients I had. Around 2006-2007 I really started to push WordPress as a service since it was maturing, transforming from a blogging platform to a CMS. Now, it’s my go-to solution \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

3) What’s a great experience you had at a WordCamp?<\/b><\/p>\n

Perhaps my most memorable experience is WordCamp Chicago 2014. Not only was there a great crowd at my talk and the conference in general, but Saturday I got to hang out with some really really great people, many of whom\u00a0I now get to work with on a daily basis, including Chris and Karim! It was an incredibly fun night and the whole conference was a blast.<\/p>\n

4) What are your non-WordPress, non-Computer related hobbies?<\/b><\/p>\n

When I’m not in front of a computer, I like to spend time with my incredible fiancee Erin (pictured), play the drums, travel a bit, and I smoke cigars from time to time. I’m also a very big Star Wars and Disney fan; since my brother works at Disney World, I take a lot of opportunities to visit him \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

5) If you could be any fictional character, who would you be and why?<\/b><\/p>\n

Luckily the last question informs this one. I think I would be Obi-Wan Kenobi. He’s wise, a great fighter, strong with the Force. Oh and he’s a Jedi! What more could you want?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1) What do you do for a living? I’m a Front End Developer at Crowd Favorite, where we do enterprise-level development specializing in WordPress. I generally do things like theme and plugin development using HTML, Sass\/CSS, Javascript, and PHP. I work with our Backend Developers to make super cool things! 2) How did you get … Continue reading Get to Know Your Organizers: Joe Casabona<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,509123],"tags":[509340,39724,509491,10402],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-the-more-you-know","tag-getting-to-know","tag-interviews","tag-joe-casabona","tag-organizers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JKi8-62","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}