{"id":283830,"date":"2014-09-12T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T08:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?p=283830"},"modified":"2014-09-12T10:21:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T08:21:06","slug":"speaker-spotlight-matty-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-matty-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Matty Cohen"},"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 Matty\u00a0had to say.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-283832 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.capetown.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/09\/Matt-Cohen-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Cohen\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/Matt-Cohen-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/Matt-Cohen.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Matt is WordPress and web developer, musician and blogger. He is a lover of punk rock, innovation, business and 80s\/90s cartoons. He is currently working as\u00a0Chief Product Officer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woothemes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">WooThemes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>How are you involved with WordPress and the WordPress community?<\/h3>\n<p>I live and breath WordPress. I head up the product division over at WooThemes, a market leader in the premium WordPress space. I also enjoy coding utility plugins in my spare time and thrive on helping to develop the business sector within WordPress, and helping developers to focus on solving real-world issues using WordPress.<\/p>\n<h3>What excites you most about WordPress?<\/h3>\n<p>Freedom and empowerment. Showing someone that anything is possible with WordPress and how the platform enables anyone to realise their dreams.<\/p>\n<h3>If you could have one super power, what would it be and why?<\/h3>\n<p>The ability to apply any super power to myself at any given time, of course (perhaps with a limit&#8230; like only 3 at a time&#8230; you know, to make it&#8230; &#8220;realistic&#8221;).<\/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 Matty\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-283830","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\/283830","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=283830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283834,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283830\/revisions\/283834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}