{"id":719,"date":"2015-06-29T12:23:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.la.wordcamp.org\/?p=719"},"modified":"2015-07-14T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T18:17:57","slug":"get-to-know-your-local-community-karen-mccamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/get-to-know-your-local-community-karen-mccamy\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know Your Local Community: Karen McCamy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-720\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.la.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/06\/2a05ff5-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2a05ff5\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/06\/2a05ff5-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/06\/2a05ff5-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/06\/2a05ff5.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A lot of people that attend a WordCamp do so for the first time, in the case of LA, we find more folks attending for the first time than those who are returning attendees. Cool stuff, right? I think so, too! So I&#8217;d like to tell you all about Karen McCamy, she&#8217;s a swell person who educates a swath of people at her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Los-Angeles-WordPress-101\/members\/65154282\/\">WordPress 101 group<\/a>. Any skill level is welcome, but she really shines in helping people just finding their way in using WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t known Karen all that long, but I usually hear her name mentioned at some point, or see her at a local WP event. She&#8217;s a wonderful resource that people rave about on and on!<\/p>\n<p>So if you happen to be one of those people looking for a light along the way as you learn WordPress, definitely reach out to Karen and attend her meetup group. You&#8217;ll be glad you did!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people that attend a WordCamp do so for the first time, in the case of LA, we find more folks attending for the first time than those who are returning attendees. Cool stuff, right? I think so, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/get-to-know-your-local-community-karen-mccamy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Get to Know Your Local Community: Karen McCamy<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7841773,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5oCQi-bB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7841773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}