{"id":283849,"date":"2014-09-15T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T07:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?p=283849"},"modified":"2014-09-15T09:56:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T07:56:03","slug":"speaker-spotlight-dave-perel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-dave-perel\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Dave Perel"},"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 Dave\u00a0had to say.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oboxthemes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-283850\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.capetown.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/09\/swQ0lMjc-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Dave Perel\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/swQ0lMjc-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/swQ0lMjc-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/swQ0lMjc.jpeg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Obox Themes<\/a> was launched in 2009. David has been involved with design and development since 2004, he is currently the CEO of Obox as well as their lead designer.<\/p>\n<p>David&#8217;s passions include design, CSS, cars and motorsport. His CV includes designing templates for Posterous, Tumblr, WordPress.com, Eventbrite and many more.<\/p>\n<h3>How are you involved with WordPress and the WordPress community?<\/h3>\n<p>I am the cofounder of Obox Themes.<\/p>\n<h3>What excites you most about WordPress?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">It enables millions of people to make a living off a platform that is free to use. Blows my mind everyday that a CMS is such a giant digital economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>If you could have one super power, what would it be?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Seeing the future.<\/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 Dave\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-283849","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\/283849","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=283849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283852,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283849\/revisions\/283852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}