{"id":2141,"date":"2018-10-18T15:11:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T15:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.seattle.wordcamp.org\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2018-10-29T04:50:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T04:50:50","slug":"kyra-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/kyra-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know Your Flight Crew &#8211; Kyra West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since those behind\u00a0the scenes of WordCamp mostly go unnoticed, we decided it would be a nice twist to introduce you some of this year&#8217;s crew:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Kyra West, Volunteer Wrangler<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What do you do for a living?\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m the Marketing Associate for Cindy Kelly &amp; Associates at Compass. I\u2019m in charge of our print and digital marketing, as well as social media and the blog. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do you use WordPress?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mostly through the cindykelly.com blog posts &#8211; I\u2019m a WordPress newbie!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How did you end up involved in WordCamp?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had a friend who was involved last year and was so enthusiastic about it that I had to come see what it was all about! It seems like a great way to increase my knowledge of WordPress and the community in Seattle.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2019s your guilty pleasure\/hobby\/outside of work passion?<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2143\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/kyra-west\/kyra-west-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/Kyra-West.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3733,3733\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kyra West\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Volunteer Wrangler, WordCamp Seattle 2018&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/Kyra-West-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/Kyra-West-1024x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2143 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.seattle.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/10\/Kyra-West-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteer Wrangler, WordCamp Seattle 2018\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/Kyra-West-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/Kyra-West-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/Kyra-West-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/Kyra-West-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/Kyra-West-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I joke that I\u2019m a retiree at 30- I love nothing better than reading, puttering in my garden, and redecorating my house. After living in Hong Kong for a couple of years, my fiance and I are thinking about just going on a cruise for our next travel adventure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And, I\u2019ve just received a sewing and embroidering machine so I\u2019m ready to start embroidering ALL THE THINGS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>How to get in touch with Kyra:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kyrawest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linkedin<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kyradwest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kydwest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>When you see Kyra at WordCamp Seattle in Nov, be sure to say hello and thank her for all her hard work and time volunteering to make WordCamp 2018 the best one yet.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since those behind\u00a0the scenes of WordCamp mostly go unnoticed, we decided it would be a nice twist to introduce you some of this year&#8217;s crew: Kyra West, Volunteer Wrangler What do you do for a living?\u00a0 I\u2019m the Marketing Associate for Cindy Kelly &amp; Associates at Compass. I\u2019m in charge of our print and digital &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/kyra-west\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get to Know Your Flight Crew &#8211; Kyra West&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14601777,"featured_media":2149,"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":[1246041],"tags":[1246051,14],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-crew","tag-flight-crew","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/Kyra-West-traveling-in-Hong-Kong.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ygka-yx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14601777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}