{"id":283860,"date":"2014-09-17T10:36:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T08:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?p=283860"},"modified":"2014-09-17T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T08:37:24","slug":"speaker-spotlight-gerhard-potgieter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-gerhard-potgieter\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Gerhard Potgieter"},"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 Gerhard\u00a0had to say.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-283861\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.capetown.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/09\/e5aff129655270463bb81a469440e5fc.png\" alt=\"Gerhard Potgieter\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/e5aff129655270463bb81a469440e5fc.png 256w, https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/e5aff129655270463bb81a469440e5fc-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/>Gerhard is an avid WordPress enthusiast, web developer, blogger, technologist and homebrewer. He is currently working as a lead developer 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 am a lead developer at WooThemes where I am mainly responsible for the WooThemes.com website where I get to push the limits of WordPress and WooCommerce on a large scale every day.<\/p>\n<h3>What excites you most about WordPress?<\/h3>\n<p>The ease and power of the platform, which enabled just about anyone with basic computer literacy to set up a site or even online store in no time, and the best part of it all, for free!<\/p>\n<h3>If you could have one super power, what would it be and why?<\/h3>\n<p>Ability to learn new skills, matrix style!<\/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 Gerhard\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-283860","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\/283860","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=283860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283948,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283860\/revisions\/283948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}