{"id":283857,"date":"2014-09-10T10:36:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T08:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?p=283857"},"modified":"2014-09-10T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T08:36:12","slug":"speaker-spotlight-emma-dicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-emma-dicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Emma Dicks"},"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 Emma\u00a0had to say.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-283858\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.capetown.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/09\/27783a1.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Dicks\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/27783a1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/27783a1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Emma is passionate about seeing young South Africans creating their own solutions to important problems and believes that WordPress is a powerful tool to this end. She runs the\u00a0<a title=\"Code4CT\" href=\"http:\/\/code4ct.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Code4CT Challenge<\/a>\u00a0which aims to introduce high school girls to coding for the Web and get them building solutions to local challenges. She is currently the\u00a0Director of New Initiatives at <a href=\"http:\/\/innovatesa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Innovate South Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>How are you involved with WordPress and the WordPress community?<\/h3>\n<p>I run a program called Code4CT which teaches high school girls to use WordPress to create communication platforms between local organisations and the people they serve.<\/p>\n<h3>What excites you most about WordPress?<\/h3>\n<p>WordPress is one of the most accessible platforms to allow everyday citizens to participate in building and creating the web.<\/p>\n<h3>If you could have one super power, what would it be and why?<\/h3>\n<p>Instant dictionary memorisation skills. I have a deep love for learning languages, as I believe it is a powerful gesture to speak someone&#8217;s mother tongue, but would gladly speed up the hours acquiring new words.<\/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 Emma\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-283857","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\/283857","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=283857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283876,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283857\/revisions\/283876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}