{"id":283827,"date":"2014-09-05T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T10:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?p=283827"},"modified":"2014-09-05T12:10:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T10:10:49","slug":"speaker-spotlight-noel-tock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-noel-tock\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Noel Tock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We asked each of our speakers a few questions about themselves and their connection with WordPress &#8211; here&#8217;s what Noel\u00a0had to say.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-283828\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.capetown.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/09\/noel-tock.jpg\" alt=\"Noel Tock\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/noel-tock.jpg 350w, https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/noel-tock-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/noel-tock-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Noel is a Swiss nomad wandering the globe. He\u2019s one of the owners at <a href=\"http:\/\/hmn.md\/\" target=\"_blank\">Human Made<\/a>, a WordPress.com VIP partner, where he heads up Product Development. If he\u2019s not working on product design, he\u2019s having a gin and tonic. Or more recently, both.<\/p>\n<h3>How are you involved with WordPress and the WordPress community?<\/h3>\n<p>I run Product at Human Made. As for the community itself, I love attending smaller and first-time WordCamps, I&#8217;m always amazed by the new people I meet.<\/p>\n<h3>What excites you most about WordPress?<\/h3>\n<p>The growing momentum of the community.<\/p>\n<h3>If you could have one super power, what would it be and why?<\/h3>\n<p>Stop time like the squirrel Hammy in that movie &#8220;Over the Hedge&#8221;, Why? Because life doesn&#8217;t need to move that fast.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z-eMdMsMgCU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We asked each of our speakers a few questions about themselves and their connection with WordPress &#8211; here&#8217;s what Noel\u00a0had to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9355949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9355949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283882,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283827\/revisions\/283882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}