{"id":756,"date":"2015-03-08T22:56:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T05:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015-experienced.seattle.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=756"},"modified":"2015-03-21T16:48:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T23:48:48","slug":"eric-amundson","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/speaker\/eric-amundson\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Amundson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Amundson founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivycat.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">IvyCat<\/a> in 2002 and is the team\u2019s lead web strategist and user-experience designer. He began developing with WordPress in early 2005, and had found his niche, loving both the software and the community.<\/p>\n<p>Eric\u2019s company specializes in WordPress development, maintenance, and support and they\u2019ve grown a one-person freelance web design shop to a small, focused team of nine people.<\/p>\n<p>Eric co-organizes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/SeattleWordPressMeetup\/events\/221267476\/\">Seattle WordPress Docs Sprint<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/South-Sound-WordPress-Meetup\/\">South Sound WordPress Meetup<\/a>, and stays active in the WordPress Community in the Pacific Northwest by sponsoring, attending, and speaking at WordPress Meetups and WordCamps.<\/p>\n<p>In his spare time, you might spy Eric writing documentation for the WordPress <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/docs\/\">Docs Team<\/a>, hacking on themes or plugins, laughing too loud in public, or herding wayward sock monkeys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Amundson founded IvyCat in 2002 and is the team\u2019s lead web strategist and user-experience designer. He began developing with WordPress in early 2005, and had found his niche, loving both the software and the community. Eric\u2019s company specializes in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/speaker\/eric-amundson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Eric Amundson<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"sewmyheadon","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-756","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s5EI-cc","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4afd830f71468aa93bb1c1953c2ad4ed93cd4316bc0a4db3614ff13a775cf4a5?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4afd830f71468aa93bb1c1953c2ad4ed93cd4316bc0a4db3614ff13a775cf4a5?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4afd830f71468aa93bb1c1953c2ad4ed93cd4316bc0a4db3614ff13a775cf4a5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4afd830f71468aa93bb1c1953c2ad4ed93cd4316bc0a4db3614ff13a775cf4a5?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4afd830f71468aa93bb1c1953c2ad4ed93cd4316bc0a4db3614ff13a775cf4a5?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4afd830f71468aa93bb1c1953c2ad4ed93cd4316bc0a4db3614ff13a775cf4a5?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/756\/revisions\/1075"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/956?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}