{"id":473,"date":"2016-08-04T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/?p=473"},"modified":"2016-08-24T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T00:18:20","slug":"bridget-willard-confirmed-as-a-keynote-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/bridget-willard-confirmed-as-a-keynote-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget Willard Confirmed as a Keynote Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-474\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/08\/bridgetwillard-042016-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bridget Willard\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/bridgetwillard-042016-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/bridgetwillard-042016-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/bridgetwillard-042016-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/bridgetwillard-042016.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>The organizers of WordCamp Cincinnati are excited to announce that Bridget Willard has confirmed that she will be a keynote speaker at our WordCamp in October. Coming to Cincinnati from California, where she currently resides, Bridget has an inspirational story about her road to the world of WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bridget Willard started her career with office work, earned a teaching degree, but returned to the office where she carved out a career in social media and marketing and ended up at a WordPress Plugin Development Shop.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, she is the Marketing Manager for <a href=\"https:\/\/wordimpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">WordImpress<\/a>, whose flagship plugin is <a href=\"https:\/\/givewp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GiveWP<\/a> &#8212; an online donation plugin. She is also the co-host of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpwatercooler.com\/wpblab\/\" target=\"_blank\">WPblab<\/a>, and co-organizer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/OC-Women-in-WordPress-Meetup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women in WordPress meetup<\/a> in Huntington Beach, California.<\/p>\n<p>She blogs about social media and, of course, WordPress on her site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgetwillard.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.bridgetwillard.com<\/a>. Please check out her blog and give her a warm Cincinnati welcome when she gets here in October!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organizers of WordCamp Cincinnati are excited to announce that Bridget Willard has confirmed that she will be a keynote speaker at our WordCamp in October. Coming to Cincinnati from California, where she currently resides, Bridget has an inspirational story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/bridget-willard-confirmed-as-a-keynote-speaker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Bridget Willard Confirmed as a Keynote Speaker<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8873680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bZld-7D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8873680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cincinnati.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}