{"id":1781,"date":"2019-09-03T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=1781"},"modified":"2019-09-03T11:25:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T15:25:42","slug":"laura-byrne-cristiano","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speaker\/laura-byrne-cristiano\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Byrne Cristiano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura started her first WordPress site back in March 2006 when she and a friend decided to start a website about a then little-known book called Twilight where fans could discuss the novel on a blog and forums. What started as a small site with maybe 30 visitors a week rapidly grew into the most popular Twilight website on the Internet, with millions of visitors each day from around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Laura was suddenly thrust into a media vortex that included set visits, a book deal, speaking engagements, and too many surreal experiences to count. This led to Laura transitioning from a career in education to one in marketing as she hit the ground running with a whole new skill set including podcasting, video editing, SEO, social media management and content marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, she\u2019s created and written for more than twenty WordPress sites in a variety of industries. She is currently a content specialist at Bet Hannon Marketing. She also does freelance marketing and social media work.<\/p>\n<p>Connect with Laura on Twitter @NewYorkerLaura.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura started her first WordPress site back in March 2006 when she and a friend decided to start a website about a then little-known book called Twilight where fans could discuss the novel on a blog and forums. What started as a small site with maybe 30 visitors a week rapidly grew into the most &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speaker\/laura-byrne-cristiano\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laura Byrne Cristiano&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9766242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wcpt_user_name":"newyorkerlaura","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-1781","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheMKa-sJ","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a34607d7436bbd42f98dd5dd7825f587464b97da643cfc217460f270f720700e?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a34607d7436bbd42f98dd5dd7825f587464b97da643cfc217460f270f720700e?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a34607d7436bbd42f98dd5dd7825f587464b97da643cfc217460f270f720700e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a34607d7436bbd42f98dd5dd7825f587464b97da643cfc217460f270f720700e?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a34607d7436bbd42f98dd5dd7825f587464b97da643cfc217460f270f720700e?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a34607d7436bbd42f98dd5dd7825f587464b97da643cfc217460f270f720700e?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9766242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1781\/revisions\/2061"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1807?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}