{"id":862,"date":"2011-10-27T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.philly.wordcamp.org\/?p=862"},"modified":"2011-10-28T09:03:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T14:03:02","slug":"speaker-spotlight-aaron-jorbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-spotlight-aaron-jorbin\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Jorbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaron.jorb.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Jorbin<\/a>\u00a0is an engineer with Clearspring where he works on AddThis and a WordPress Core Contributor. He has spoken to multiple User Groups and at WordCamps in four time zones. When he\u2019s not busy creating and fixing bugs, Aaron helps run an educational simulation conference for over 1500 college students. He\u2019ll gladly toast to the GPL any day of the week and happily will discuss whisky, quality beer, or the upper peninsula of Michigan anytime he can.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron will be giving a presentation in the Developer Track titled:\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2011.philly.wordcamp.org\/session\/moving-beyond-jquery-and-into-javascript\/\">Moving Beyond jQuery and into Javascript<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you speaking about at WordCamp Philly?<\/strong><br \/>\nJavaScript! \u00a0Specifically moving beyond being a implementer of jQuery plugins and into being a JavaScript developer.<br \/>\n<strong>What is your favorite thing about the city of Philadelphia?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the only place on the east coast to get Russian River.<br \/>\n<strong>Why do you love WordPress?<\/strong><br \/>\nContributing to WordPress has had more of an impact on me becoming the developer that I am then any other single action. \u00a0Reading WordPress code taught me how to code. \u00a0Contributing to WordPress taught me to code well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Jorbin\u00a0is an engineer with Clearspring where he works on AddThis and a WordPress Core Contributor. He has spoken to multiple User Groups and at WordCamps in four time zones. When he\u2019s not busy creating and fixing bugs, Aaron helps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-spotlight-aaron-jorbin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Jorbin<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":811778,"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":[6543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheN0r-dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/811778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}