{"id":400,"date":"2015-07-03T09:32:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T13:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.scranton.wordcamp.org\/?p=400"},"modified":"2015-06-25T01:35:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T05:35:58","slug":"get-to-know-your-speakers-lauren-pittenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/get-to-know-your-speakers-lauren-pittenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know Your Speakers: Lauren Pittenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dd9912bc090b8dc657dfd2733b9a77d3?s=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>1) What do you do for a living (company you work for, official title, daily responsibilities, etc.)?<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m a front end designer\/developer at LBDesign. We&#8217;re a small communications consultancy. I design and build websites with HTML, CSS\/SASS, PHP and WordPress. I mainly build custom themes. I am also an instructor for the Women&#8217;s Coding Collective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) How did you get into WordPress?<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter I got my undergrad degree in English, I took an HTML class that I had a lot of fun with and then I went back to school for a web design certificate. One of my teachers there told me about a company looking for a web person, whose website was on WordPress. I was like &#8220;but I don&#8217;t know WordPress!&#8221; She was like, &#8220;you&#8217;re fine.&#8221; Then I worked for them for two years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) What&#8217;s a great experience you had at a WordCamp?<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve only ever been to one WordCamp and it was WordCamp Philly 2015. It was amazing. I met a ton of really awesome people and learned a lot, too!<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) What are your non-WordPress, non-Computer related hobbies?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m not at my computer I like to snuggle with my puppies, paint, crafts, and yoga. I also like scrapbooking, writing, reading, meditation and have interest in women&#8217;s issues and fashion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5) If you could be any fictional character, who would you be and why?<\/strong><br \/>\nI would be Sabrina the teenage witch because magic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) What do you do for a living (company you work for, official title, daily responsibilities, etc.)? I&#8217;m a front end designer\/developer at LBDesign. We&#8217;re a small communications consultancy. I design and build websites with HTML, CSS\/SASS, PHP and WordPress. I mainly build custom themes. I am also an instructor for the Women&#8217;s Coding Collective. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/get-to-know-your-speakers-lauren-pittenger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get to Know Your Speakers: Lauren Pittenger<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[29,509123],"tags":[509340,39724,172424,172445],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers","category-the-more-you-know","tag-getting-to-know","tag-interviews","tag-lauren-pittenger","tag-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JKi8-6s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}