{"id":499,"date":"2017-07-31T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T04:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/?p=499"},"modified":"2017-07-21T22:03:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T02:03:27","slug":"todays-the-deadline-apply-to-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/todays-the-deadline-apply-to-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s the deadline!  Apply to speak!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-488\" src=\"https:\/\/2017.rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/files\/2017\/05\/wcri-social-call-for-speakers-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"WordCamp RI puts call out for speakers.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/05\/wcri-social-call-for-speakers-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/05\/wcri-social-call-for-speakers-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/05\/wcri-social-call-for-speakers-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/05\/wcri-social-call-for-speakers-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/05\/wcri-social-call-for-speakers.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0The time has come.\u00a0 Today is the last day to apply to speak at Word Camp RI.\u00a0 Do you have a special area of expertise?\u00a0 A topic that will appeal to beginners?\u00a0 coders?\u00a0 small business? non-profits?\u00a0 those who need help bringing traffic to their website?\u00a0 anyone who has struggled with writer&#8217;s block as they try to write for the web?<\/p>\n<p>We want to hear from you!\u00a0 Apply on our <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/call-for-speakers\/\">Call for Speakers page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WordCamp RI will be held September 22 and 23 at New England Tech&#8217;s East Greenwich campus.<br \/>\nWe encourage you to submit talks on any topic related to WordPress and\/or the Internet!<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, it might be helpful for you to know what past attendees have told us they would like to have as session topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Theme development<\/li>\n<li>Custom themes<\/li>\n<li>Commercial themes<\/li>\n<li>Child themes<\/li>\n<li>Plugin development<\/li>\n<li>Getting the most out of Yoast SEO Plug-In<\/li>\n<li>WordPress SEO<\/li>\n<li>Using WordPress in Education<\/li>\n<li>Putting an academic or business portfolio on WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Creating quality content for the website<\/li>\n<li>Finding the time to have a good online strategy\/ Online Time Management<\/li>\n<li>Project Management<\/li>\n<li>Mobile delivery<\/li>\n<li>Working locally<\/li>\n<li>Installing and managing multisites<\/li>\n<li>eCommerce<\/li>\n<li>WP Automatic Upgrades<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The time has come.\u00a0 Today is the last day to apply to speak at Word Camp RI.\u00a0 Do you have a special area of expertise?\u00a0 A topic that will appeal to beginners?\u00a0 coders?\u00a0 small business? non-profits?\u00a0 those who need help bringing traffic to their website?\u00a0 anyone who has struggled with writer&#8217;s block as they try &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/todays-the-deadline-apply-to-speak\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s the deadline!  Apply to speak!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12477116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[5015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nE5B-83","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12477116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}